Overview
- Presents a comprehensive formulation of the fluid dynamical basis of glacier and ice sheet flow and thermodynamics, with focussing on its application to numerical modelling
Part of the book series: Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Mathematics (AGEM)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
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“The text … give enough information to point the reader in the appropriate direction. … designed to be adsorbed through study and practice, and will be a worthwhile guide for beginning graduate students and those with experience in other aspects of geophysical fluid dynamics. It is primarily a text in practical ice sheet modeling techniques, and as much will be useful to those beginning their work in this field.” (Alan W. Rempel, Pure and Applied Geophysics, Vol. 167, 2010)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dynamics of Ice Sheets and Glaciers
Authors: Ralf Greve, Heinz Blatter
Series Title: Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Mathematics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03415-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-03414-5Published: 20 August 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-26935-6Published: 14 March 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-03415-2Published: 07 August 2009
Series ISSN: 1866-8348
Series E-ISSN: 1866-8356
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 288
Number of Illustrations: 105 b/w illustrations
Topics: Geophysics and Environmental Physics, Classical and Continuum Physics, Geophysics/Geodesy, Earth Sciences, general, Fluid- and Aerodynamics