Dynamics of Snow and Ice Masses
Publisher： Elsevier Science
Publication year： 2012
E-ISBN: 9780323148894
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780121794507
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780121794507
Subject： P426.63 solid crystalline precipitation
Language： ENG
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Description
Dynamics of Snow and Ice Masses gives an outline of snow and ice studies with an emphasis on essential properties and processes. The monograph also treats the dynamical aspects of snow and ice masses.
The text covers topics such as the flow and temperature of ice sheets and shelves, the numerical modeling of ice-sheet changes; the structure of glaciers, the experimental creep behavior of ice, flow law of glacier ice, and advance and retreat of glaciers. Also covered are topics such as sea ice - the physics of its growth, drift, and decay; iceberg deterioration, sources, drift, and drift patterns; and freshwater ice growth, motion, and decay.
The book is recommended as a textbook for graduate-level students of snow and ice studies and as reference for climatologists.
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