Call number:
AWI G3-11-0064
Description / Table of Contents:
This is the first textbook to address all the components of the Earth's cryosphere - all forms of snow and ice, both terrestrial and marine. It provides a concise but comprehensive summary of snow cover, glaciers, ice sheets, lake and river ice, permafrost, sea ice and icebergs - their past history and projected future state. It is designed for courses at upper undergraduate and graduate level in environmental science, geography, geology, glaciology, hydrology, water resource engineering and ocean sciences. It also provides a superb up-to-date summary for researchers of the cryosphere. The book includes an extensive bibliography, numerous figures and color plates, thematic boxes on selected topics and a glossary. The book builds on courses taught by the authors for many decades at the University of Colorado and the University of Alberta. Whilst there are many existing texts on individual components of the cryosphere, no other textbook covers the whole cryosphere.
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
XV, 472 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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25x19x2 cm
Edition:
First published
ISBN:
9780521156851
URL:
http://scans.hebis.de/26/74/44/26744421_toc.pdf
Language:
English
Note:
Contents
Preface
Ackowledgements
1 Introduction
1.1 Definition and extent
1.2 The role of the cryosphere in the climate system
1.3 The organization of cryospheric observations and research
1.4 Remote sensing of the cryosphere
Part I The terrestrial cryosphere
2A Snowfall and snow cover
2.1 History
2.2 Snow formation
2.3 Snow cover
2.4 Snow cover modeling in land surface schemes of GCMs
2.5 Snow interception by the canopy
2.6 Sublimation
2.7 Snow metamorphism
2.8 In situ measurements of snow
2.9 Remote sensing of snowpack properties and snow-cover area
2.10 Snowmelt modeling
2.11 Recent observed snow cover changes
2B Avalanches
2.12 History
2.13 Avalanche characteristics
2.14 Avalanche models
2.15 Trends' in avalanchf:' conditions
3 Glaciers and ice caps
3.1 History
3.2 Definitions
3.3 Glacier characteristics
3.4 Mass balance
3.5 Remote sensing
3.6 Glacier flow and flowlines
3.7 Scaling
3.8 Glacier modeling
3.9 Ice caps
3.10 Glacier hydrology
3.11 Changes in glaciers and ice caps
4 Ice sheets
4.1 History of exploration
4.2 Mass balance
4.3 Remote sensing
4.4 Mechanisms of ice sheet changes
4.5 The Greenland Ice Sheet
4.6 Antarctica
4.7 Overall ice sheet changes
4.8 Ice sheet models
4.9 Ice sheet and ice shelf interaction
4.10 Ice sheet contributions to sea level change
5 Frozen ground and permafrost
5.1 History
5.2 Frozen ground definitions and extent
5.3 Thermal relationships
5.4 Vertical characteristics of permafrost
5.5 Remote sensing
5.6 Ground ice
5.7 Permafrost models
5.8 Geomorphological features associated with permafrost
5.9 Changes in permafrost and soil freezing
6 Freshwater ice
6.1 History
6.2 Lake ice
6.3 Changes in lake ice cover
6.4 River ice
6.5 Trends in river ice cover
6.6 Icings
Part II The marine cryosphere
7 Sea ice
7.1 History
7.2 Sea ice characteristics
7.3 Ice drift and ocean circulation
7.4 Sea ice models
7.5 Leads, polynyas, and pressure ridges
7.6 Ice thickness
7.7 Trends in sea ice extent and thickness
8 Ice shelves and icebergs
8.1 History
8.2 Ice shelves
8.3 Ice streams
8.4 Conditions beneath ice shelves
8.5 Ice shelf buttressing
8.6 Icebergs
8.7 Ice islands
Part Ill The cryosphere past and future
9 The cryosphere in the past
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Snowball Earth and ice-free Cretaceous
9.3 Phanerozoic glaciations
9.4 Late Cenozoic polar glaciations
9.5 The Quaternary
9.6 The Holocene
10 The future cryosphere: impacts of global warming
10.1 Introduction
10.2 General observations
10.3 Recent cryospheric changes
10.4 Climate projections
10.5 Projected changes to Northern Hemisphere snow cover
10.6 Projected changes in land ice
10.7 Projected permafrost changes
10.8 Projected changes in freshwater ice
10.9 Projected sea ice changes
Part IV Applications
11 Applications of snow and ice research
11.1 Snowfall
11.2 Freezing precipitation
11.3 Avalanches
11.4 Ice avalanches
11.5 Winter sports industry
11.6 Water resources
11.7 Hydropower
11.8 Snow melt floods
11.9 Freshwater ice
11.10 Ice roads
11.11 Sea ice
11.12 Glaciers and ice sheets
11.13 Icebergs
11.14 Permafrost and ground ice
I 1.15 Seasonal ground freezing
Glossary
References
Index
Location:
AWI Reading room
Branch Library:
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