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Author(s): Roger Barry, Thian Yew Gan
ISBN(s): 9780521769815, 0521769817
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 12.93 MB
Year: 2011
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0521769817 
ISBN 13: 9780521769815
Author: Roger Barry, Thian Yew Gan

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.

The Global Cryosphere Past Present and Future 1st Table of contents:

1 Introduction
1.1 Definition and extent
Dimensions of the cryosphere
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
Snow
Snowfall
Snowflakes
Depth hoar
2.3 Snow cover
Introduction
Snow cover, depth distribution, and blowing snow
2.4 Snow cover modeling in land surface schemes of GCMs
Modeling blowing snow
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
Remote sensing of snow water equivalent (SWE)
Linear and nonlinear regression algorithms to estimate SWE
Artificial neural network (ANN) algorithms to estimate SWE
Active microwave data
2.10 Snowmelt modeling
Empirical snowmelt-runoff models
Degree-day or temperature index (TI) method
Modified degree-day or modified temperature index (MTI) Method
Modeling snowmelt by energy balance method (EBM)
One-dimensional vertical energy balance method
Snowpack water balance
Two-dimensional energy balance approach
Intercomparison of snowmelt models
An integrated approach to modeling snow accumulation and ablation processes
2.11 Recent observed snow cover changes
Snowmelt in Greenland
Snow cover extent
Snow water equivalent
2B Avalanches
2.12 History
2.13 Avalanche characteristics
2.14 Avalanche models
2.15 Trends in avalanche conditions
3 Glaciers and ice caps
3.1 History
3.2 Definitions
3.3 Glacier characteristics
Defining glaciers accurately
Glacier types
Tidewater glaciers
Accumulation area ratio
Glacier limits
3.4 Mass balance
3.5 Remote sensing
3.6 Glacier flow and flow lines
Glacier response time
Surging glaciers
3.7 Scaling
3.8 Glacier modeling
3.9 Ice caps
3.10 Glacier hydrology
Surface melt processes
Glacier runoff
3.11 Changes in glaciers and ice caps
Alps
Arctic
Alaska
British Columbia
Antarctica
New Zealand
Andes
Himalaya
Equatorial glaciers
Central Asia
China
A new glacier change index
Sea-level rise
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
Methods to survey the active layer
Active layer thickness
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
Lake ice models
Remote sensing
6.3 Changes in lake ice cover
6.4 River ice
Freeze-up
Ice jams
Break-up
River ice models
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
Remote sensing
Sea ice growth
Landfast ice
Snow depth
Sea ice decay
Multiyearice
Mass balance
Ice symbology
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
Note 7.1
8 Ice shelves and icebergs
8.1 History
8.2 Ice shelves
Antarctica
Antarctic Peninsula
Ellesmere Island
8.3 Ice streams
8.4 Conditions beneath ice shelves
8.5 Ice shelf buttressing
8.6 Icebergs
Calving processes
Iceberg data
Physical characteristics
Iceberg deterioration
Iceberg motion
8.7 Ice islands
Part III 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
Avalanches
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
11.15 Seasonal ground freezing

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