Buch, Englisch, 500 Seiten
Buch, Englisch, 500 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-4933-0076-1
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology
Zielgruppe
Graduate students and academic and professional researchers in the fields of glaciology, climatology, geophysics and geology.
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Weitere Infos & Material
1.Introduction 2. Transformation of Snow to Ice 3. Grain-Scale Structures and Deformation of Ice 4. Mass Balance Processes: Overview and Regimes 5. Mass Balance Processes: Surface Ablation and Energy Budget; 6. Glacial Hydrology; 7. Basal Slip; 8. The Flow of Ice Masses; 9. Temperatures in Ice Masses; 10. Large-Scale Structures; 11. Reaction of Glaciers to Environmental Changes; 12. Glacier Surges; 13. Ice Sheets and the Earth System; 14. Ice, Sea Level, and Contemporary Climate Change; 15. Ice Core Studies.