Research Catalog

Title

Glaciers and climate change / Johannes Oerlemans.

Author

Oerlemans, J. (Johannes), 1950-

Publication

Lisse ; Exton, (PA) : A.A. Balkema Publishers, ©2001.

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Details

Description

xii, 148 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 31 cm

Subject

• Climatic changes
• Glaciers
• Climate Change
• climate change
• glaciers (bodies of water)
• Climatic changes
• Glaciers
• Gletscher
• Klimaänderung
• CLIMATE CHANGE
• GLACIERS
• CLIMATOLOGY
• GLOBAL WARMING

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• BASIC CONCEPTS: Where do glaciers form? -- Specific balance, equilibrium line, snow line -- The thermal regime -- Flow of ice -- Mass balance and continuity -- Historical glacier records -- THE MICRO-CLIMATE OF A VALLEY GLACIER: Solar radiation - geometric factors -- Solar radiation - atmospheric effects -- The surface albedo -- Longwave radiation -- The atmospheric boundary layer over glaciers -- Turbulence and boundary-layer profiles -- Turbulent fluxes -- A simple model of the glacier wind -- Micro-climate and large-scale weather -- MODELLING GLACIER MASS BALANCE: Measurements -- Calculating melt -- A simple analytical mass balance model -- A simple numerical mass balance model -- More comprehensive modelling -- Modelled sensitivity of the mean specific balance -- Modelled balance gradients -- The seasonal sensitivity characteristic (SSC) -- MODELLING THE GEOMETRY AND FLOW OF A VALLEY GLACIER: Ice deformation: simple shearing flow -- Perfect plasticity -- A very simple glacier model -- Sliding -- A numerical ice-flow model -- CALCULATIONS FOR A GLACIER OF CONSTANT WIDTH: A basic experiment -- Varying the equilibrium-line altitude -- Back to the analytical model -- A more complicated bed -- Characteristic time scales -- The role of the balance gradient -- Response time derived from the simple analytic model -- MORE REALISTIC GEOMETRY: Area-elevation distribution -- Extending the simple analytical model -- Adjusting the numerical model for a varying glacier width -- Shape factors -- Numerical experiments for varying glacier width -- Complex geometry.
• NUMERICAL MODELLING OF REAL GLACIERS: NIGARDSBREEN, RHONEGLETSCHER, ABRAMOV GLACIER AND FRANZ-JOSEF GLACIER: From a topographic map to a parameterization of the 3-d geometry -- Nigardsbreen, Rhonegletscher, Abramov Glacier and Franz-Josef Glacier -- Response times -- The observed records of glacier length -- Dynamic calibration -- Advance and retreat -- CLIMATIC INTERPRETATION OF GLACIER FLUCTUATIONS: Inverse modelling -- Another look at glacier fluctuations of small amplitude -- Inverse modelling with flow-line models -- Climate noise in glacier records -- Simulating glacier fluctuations from climate records -- Mean specific balance as a climate indicator? -- Glacier models and climate models -- THE GLOBAL PICTURE AND SEA-LEVEL RISE: World-Wide glacier retreat -- Glaciers and sea-level change -- Calculating the total contribution of glaciers to sea-level rise -- A discussion of the Greenland ice sheet -- A discussion of the Antarctic ice sheet -- Sea-level rise, land ice and thermal expansion -- THE FUTURE OF GLACIERS: The EISMINT-study of glaciers in the 21st century -- The EISMINT-results in one equation -- Climate change and melt-water discharge from glaciers -- THE FUTURE OF GLACIER RESEARCH: Using satellite data; optical sensors -- Using satellite data: microwaves -- The role of in situ measurements -- The role of modelling.

ISBN

• 9026518137
• 9789026518133

LCCN

2001040014

OCLC

• ocm47045105
• 47045105
• SCSB-14081749

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library