Ice Physics and the Natural Environment

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XV

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • J. S. Wettlaufer

      Pages 1-9

3. Chapters

   1. History of the Search for a Theory of Melting

      • J. G. Dash

      Pages 11-21

   2. Nucleation and Surface Melting of Ice

      • David W. Oxtoby

      Pages 23-38

   3. Crystal Growth, Surface Phase Transitions and Thermomolecular Pressure

      • J. S. Wettlaufer

      Pages 39-67

   4. Some Aspects of the Physics of Glaciers

      • W. S. B. Paterson

      Pages 69-88

   5. Stable Isotope Records from Greenland Deep Ice Cores: The Climate Signal and the Role of Diffusion

      • Sigfús J. Johnsen, H. B. Clausen, Jean Jouzel, Jakob Schwander, Árny E. Sveinbjörnsdóttir, James White

      Pages 89-107

   6. Present and Past Glaciations: A Geological Perspective

      • Krzysztof Birkenmajer

      Pages 109-119

   7. Ice in the Troposphere

      • M. B. Baker

      Pages 121-142

   8. Physico-Chemistry of Polar Stratospheric Clouds

      • Thomas Peter

      Pages 143-167

   9. A Minimal Model of Sea Ice and Climate

      • Alan Thorndike

      Pages 169-183

   10. Forecasting Ice on Lakes, Estuaries and Shelf Seas

       • Anders Omstedt

       Pages 185-207

   11. On Productivity in Ice-Covered Polar Oceans

       • Ole Jørgen Lønne

       Pages 209-218

   12. The Freezing of Soils: Ice in a Porous Medium and Its Environmental Significance

       • Peter J. Williams

       Pages 219-239

   13. Ground Freezing Technology For Environmental Remediation

       • J. G. Dash

       Pages 241-251

   14. Nuclear Contamination and Environmental Damage From Oil Spills in Polar Regions of FSU

       • Lydia Popova

       Pages 253-271

4. Lecture Notes

   1. Lecture Notes on Water in Ice: Microscopic and Geophysical Scales

      • John F. Nye

      Pages 273-279

5. Articles

   1. Local Ice Deformation Under the Influence of Natural Forces. Field Observations and Analyses of Cyclic Oscillations

      • Yevgeny Aksenov, Peter Wadhams

      Pages 281-284

   2. Corrugations of the Sea-Ice-Ocean Interface Caused By Ocean Shear

      • Daniel L. Feltham, M. Grae Worster

      Pages 285-287

   3. Climatic Changes in the Mountain Glacier Area of Pamir

      • Alexander Finaev

      Pages 289-294

The Advanced Study Institute Ice Physics in the Natural and Endangered Environ­ ment was held at Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy, from September 7 to 19, 1997. The ASI was designed to study the broad range of ice science and technology, and it brought together an appropriately interdisciplinary group of lecturers and students to study the many facets of the subject. The talks and poster presentations explored how basic molecular physics of ice have important environmental consequences, and, con­ versely, how natural phenomena present new questions for fundamental study. The of lectures discusses these linkages, in order that overall unity of following sunimary the subject and this volume can be perceived. Not all of the lecturers and participants were able to contribute a written piece, but their active involvement was crucial to the success of the Institute and thereby influenced the content of the volume. We began the Institute by retracing the history of the search for a microscopic un­ derstanding of melting. Our motivation was straightforward. Nearly every phenome­ non involving ice in the environment is influenced by the change of phase from solid to liquid or vice-versa. Hence, a sufficiently deep physical picture of the melting tran­ sition enriches our appreciation of a vast array of geophysical and technical problems.

• Cloud
• Frost
• Ocean
• Oceanography
• Scale
• Sea ice
• Snow
• Storm
• Thunder
• Troposphere
• Umwelt
• environment
• geophysics
• satellite
• thunderstorm

• Applied Physics Laboratory and Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

  John S. Wettlaufer

• Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

  J. Gregory Dash

• Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

  Norbert Untersteiner

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