Glaciers and Ice Sheets in the Climate System

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Our realisation of how profoundly glaciers and ice sheets respond to climate change and impact sea level and the environment has propelled their study to the forefront of Earth system science. Aspects of this multidisciplinary endeavour now constitute major areas of research. This book is named after the international summer school held annually in the beautiful alpine village of Karthaus, Northern Italy, and consists of twenty chapters based on lectures from the school. They cover theory, methods, and observations, and introduce readers to essential glaciological topics such as ice-flow dynamics, polar meteorology, mass balance, ice-core analysis, paleoclimatology, remote sensing and geophysical methods, glacial isostatic adjustment, modern and past glacial fluctuations, and ice sheet reconstruction. The chapters were written by thirty-four contributing authors who are leading international authorities in their fields. The book can be used as a graduate-level textbook for a university course, and as a valuable reference guide for practising glaciologists and climate scientists.

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xxvii

Slow Viscous Flow

Thermal Structure

Pages 29-45

Sliding, Drainage and Subglacial Geomorphology

Pages 47-78

Tidewater Glaciers

Pages 79-91

Interaction of Ice Shelves with the Ocean

Pages 93-130

Polar Meteorology

Pages 131-159

Mass Balance

Pages 161-184

Numerical Modelling of Ice Sheets, Streams, and Shelves

Pages 185-217

Least-Squares Data Inversion in Glaciology

Pages 219-240

Analytical Models of Ice Sheets and Ice Shelves

Pages 241-254

Firn

Pages 255-278

Ice Cores: Archive of the Climate System

Pages 279-325

Satellite Remote Sensing of Glaciers and Ice Sheets

Pages 327-348

Geophysics

Pages 349-381

Glacial Isostatic Adjustment

Pages 383-413

Ice Sheets in the Cenozoic

Pages 415-430

Paleoglaciology

Pages 431-457

Glacier Fluctuations and Simple Glacier Models

Pages 459-482

Tropical Glaciers

Pages 483-495

Editors and Affiliations

MACSI, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

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.

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