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Main Title Dynamics of Ice Sheets and Glaciers [electronic resource] /
Type EBOOK
Author Greve, Ralf.
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
Blatter, Heinz.
Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
Year Published 2009
Call Number QC801-809
ISBN 9783642034152
Subjects Geography ; Physical geography ; Mathematical geography
Internet Access
Description Access URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03415-2
Collation XIV, 287p. 105 illus. online resource.
Notes
Due to license restrictions, this resource is available to EPA employees and authorized contractors only
Contents Notes
Ice in the Climate System -- Vectors, Tensors and Their Representation -- Elements of Continuum Mechanics -- Constitutive Equations for Polycrystalline Ice -- Large-Scale Dynamics of Ice Sheets -- Large-Scale Dynamics of Ice Shelves -- Dynamics of Glacier Flow -- Glacial Isostasy -- Advanced Topics -- Conclusions, Summary and Outlook -- Erratum. Dynamics of Ice Sheets and Glaciers presents an introduction to the dynamics and thermodynamics of flowing ice masses on Earth. Based on an outline of general continuum mechanics, the different initial-boundary-value problems for the flow of ice sheets, ice shelves, ice caps and glaciers are systematically derived. Special emphasis is put on developing hierarchies of approximations for the different systems, and suitable numerical solution techniques are discussed. A separate chapter is devoted to glacial isostasy. The book is appropriate for graduate courses in glaciology, cryospheric sciences, environmental sciences, geophysics and related fields. Standard undergraduate knowledge of mathematics (calculus, linear algebra) and physics (classical mechanics, thermodynamics) provide a sufficient background for successfully studying the text.