Overview
- Based on lectures from the renowned Karthaus summer school on glaciology
- Comprises twenty chapters on diverse topics in glaciology and written by leading international experts
- Serves as a primer on glaciological topics and their application to climate change
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment (STEGE)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Professor Andrew Fowler is a Research Professor at the University of Limerick and Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Oxford. He was an undergraduate and then graduate in mathematics at Oxford, and completed his thesis on glacier dynamics in 1977. Following this, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Trinity College Dublin and then an Assistant Professor at MIT. He returned to Oxford as a Lecturer in 1985 and was promoted to Professor in 2014. In 2007, he was appointed Stokes Professor at the University of Limerick, and was appointed a Research Professor there in 2012.
Dr. Felix Ng is a Reader in Theoretical Glaciology at the University of Sheffield. Having grown up in Hong Kong and attended middle school in the UK, he read the undergraduate degree in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford. There, he subsequently completed his D.Phil. in Mathematical Glaciology at the Mathematical Institute in 1998. In the following years, he held postdoctoral research positions at Oxford, the University of Washington, and MIT. He was appointed a Lecturer in Glaciology at the University of Sheffield in 2005, before being promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2012, and to Reader in 2018.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Glaciers and Ice Sheets in the Climate System
Book Subtitle: The Karthaus Summer School Lecture Notes
Editors: Andrew Fowler, Felix Ng
Series Title: Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42584-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42582-1Published: 29 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-42584-5Published: 28 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2510-1307
Series E-ISSN: 2510-1315
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 530
Number of Illustrations: 69 b/w illustrations, 214 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geology, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Environment, general, Physical Geography