Author : W. Dansgaard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Air
ISBN : UCSD:31822033510777
Frozen Annals
W. Dansgaard
The Greenland Ice Sheet
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The Greenland Ice Sheet
Statens Naturhistoriske Museum
Author : Statens Naturhistoriske Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Glaciers
ISBN : 8787519461
The Greenland Ice Sheet by Statens Naturhistoriske Museum Pdf
The Greenland Ice Cap
Børge Fristrup
Author : Børge Fristrup
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Glacial climates
ISBN : OSU:32435009437427
The Greenland Ice Cap by Børge Fristrup Pdf
Description, history and scientific findings concerning the Greenland ice cap.
The Greenland Ice Sheet
Henri Bader
Author : Henri Bader
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Ice
ISBN : MINN:31951000512932D
The Greenland Ice Sheet by Henri Bader Pdf
The Ice at the End of the World
Jon Gertner
Author : Jon Gertner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812996623
The Ice at the End of the World by Jon Gertner Pdf
An urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change. As Greenland's ice melts and runs off into the sea, it not only threatens to affect hundreds of millions of people who live in coastal areas. It will also have drastic effects on ocean currents, weather systems, economies, and migration patterns
Ice Sheets and Climate
Johannes Oerlemans,C.J. van der Veen
Author : Johannes Oerlemans,C.J. van der Veen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400963252
Ice Sheets and Climate by Johannes Oerlemans,C.J. van der Veen Pdf
Climate modelling is a field in rapid development, and the fltudy of cryospheric processes has become an important part of it. On smaller time scales, the effect of snow cover and sea ice on the atmospheric circulation is of concern for long-range weather forecasting. Thinking in decades or centuries, the effect of a C02 climatic warming on the present-day ice sheets, and the resulting changes in global sea level, has drawn a lot of attention. In particular, the dynamics of marine ice sheets (ice sheets on a bed that would be below sea level after removal of ice and full isostatic rebound) is a subject of continuous research. This interest stems from the fact that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is a marine ice sheet which, according to some workers, may be close to a complete collapse. The Pleistocene ice ages, or glacial cycles, are best characterized by total ice volume on earth, indicating that on 4 5 large time scales (10 to 10 yr) ice sheets are a dominant component of the climate system. The enormous amount of paleoclimatic information obtained from deep-sea sediments in the last few decades has led to a complete revival of iriterest in the physical aspects of the Pleistocene climatic evolution.
The Ice at the End of the World
Jon Gertner
Author : Jon Gertner
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780812986549
The Ice at the End of the World by Jon Gertner Pdf
A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change “Jon Gertner takes readers to spots few journalists or even explorers have visited. The result is a gripping and important book.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • The Christian Science Monitor • Library Journal Greenland: a remote, mysterious island five times the size of California but with a population of just 56,000. The ice sheet that covers it is 700 miles wide and 1,500 miles long, and is composed of nearly three quadrillion tons of ice. For the last 150 years, explorers and scientists have sought to understand Greenland—at first hoping that it would serve as a gateway to the North Pole, and later coming to realize that it contained essential information about our climate. Locked within this vast and frozen white desert are some of the most profound secrets about our planet and its future. Greenland’s ice doesn’t just tell us where we’ve been. More urgently, it tells us where we’re headed. In The Ice at the End of the World, Jon Gertner explains how Greenland has evolved from one of earth’s last frontiers to its largest scientific laboratory. The history of Greenland’s ice begins with the explorers who arrived here at the turn of the twentieth century—first on foot, then on skis, then on crude, motorized sleds—and embarked on grueling expeditions that took as long as a year and often ended in frostbitten tragedy. Their original goal was simple: to conquer Greenland’s seemingly infinite interior. Yet their efforts eventually gave way to scientists who built lonely encampments out on the ice and began drilling—one mile, two miles down. Their aim was to pull up ice cores that could reveal the deepest mysteries of earth’s past, going back hundreds of thousands of years. Today, scientists from all over the world are deploying every technological tool available to uncover the secrets of this frozen island before it’s too late. As Greenland’s ice melts and runs off into the sea, it not only threatens to affect hundreds of millions of people who live in coastal areas. It will also have drastic effects on ocean currents, weather systems, economies, and migration patterns. Gertner chronicles the unfathomable hardships, amazing discoveries, and scientific achievements of the Arctic’s explorers and researchers with a transporting, deeply intelligent style—and a keen sense of what this work means for the rest of us. The melting ice sheet in Greenland is, in a way, an analog for time. It contains the past. It reflects the present. It can also tell us how much time we might have left.
Vanishing Ice
Vivien Gornitz
Author : Vivien Gornitz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231548892
Vanishing Ice by Vivien Gornitz Pdf
The Arctic is thawing. In summer, cruise ships sail through the once ice-clogged Northwest Passage, lakes form on top of the Greenland Ice Sheet, and polar bears swim farther and farther in search of waning ice floes. At the opposite end of the world, floating Antarctic ice shelves are shrinking. Mountain glaciers are in retreat worldwide, unleashing flash floods and avalanches. We are on thin ice—and with melting permafrost’s potential to let loose still more greenhouse gases, these changes may be just the beginning. Vanishing Ice is a powerful depiction of the dramatic transformation of the cryosphere—the world of ice and snow—and its consequences for the human world. Delving into the major components of the cryosphere, including ice sheets, valley glaciers, permafrost, and floating ice, Vivien Gornitz gives an up-to-date explanation of key current trends in the decline of ice mass. Drawing on a long-term perspective gained by examining changes in the cryosphere and corresponding variations in sea level over millions of years, she demonstrates the link between thawing ice and sea-level rise to point to the social and economic challenges on the horizon. Gornitz highlights the widespread repercussions of ice loss, which will affect countless people far removed from frozen regions, to explain why the big meltdown matters to us all. Written for all readers and students interested in the science of our changing climate, Vanishing Ice is an accessible and lucid warning of the coming thaw.
Ice in the Climate System
W. Richard Peltier
Author : W. Richard Peltier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642850165
Ice in the Climate System by W. Richard Peltier Pdf
According to my latest model for the last glacial maximum (LGM) (Grosswald 1988), the Arctic continental margin of Eurasia was glaciated by the Eurasian ice sheet, which consisted of three interconnected ice domes --the Scandinavian, Kara, and East Siberian. The Kara Sea glacier was largely a marine ice dome grounded on the sea's continental shelf. The ice dome discharged its ice in all directions, northward into the deep Arctic Basin, southward and westward onto the mainland of west-central North Siberia, the northern Russian Plain, and over the Barents shelf into the Norwegian-Greenland Sea On the Barents shelf, the Kara ice dome merged with the Scandinavian ice dome. In the Arctic Basin the discharged ice floated and eventually coalesced with the floating glacier ice of the North-American provenance giving rise to the Central-Arctic ice shelf. Along its southern margin, the Kara ice dome impounded the northward flowing rivers, causing the formation of large proglaciallakes and their integration into a transcontinental meltwater drainage system. Despite the constant increase in corroborating evidence, the concept of a Kara ice dome is still considered debatable, and the ice dome itself problematic. As a result, a paleogeographic uncertainty takes place, which is aggravated by the fact that a great deal of existing knowledge, no matter how broadly accepted, is based on ambiguous interpretations of the data, most of which are published in Russian and, therefore, not easily available to western scientists.
Greenland Icefields and Life in the North Atlantic
George Frederick Wright,Warren Upham
Author : George Frederick Wright,Warren Upham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Geology
ISBN : UCAL:$B556720
Greenland Icefields and Life in the North Atlantic by George Frederick Wright,Warren Upham Pdf
Describes excursion to Greenland in 1894 with Dr. F.A. Cook, with observations on land and sea ice, peoples, plants and animals. Discusses Pleistocene glaciation and its causes. (AB 19714).
Glaciers, Ice Sheets and Volcanoes
Samuel C. Colbeck
Author : Samuel C. Colbeck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Glaciers
ISBN : UOM:39015091135148
Glaciers, Ice Sheets and Volcanoes by Samuel C. Colbeck Pdf
Greenland Ice Core
Chester C. Langway,Hans Oeschger,W. Dansgaard
Author : Chester C. Langway,Hans Oeschger,W. Dansgaard
Publisher : American Geophysical Union
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Greenland Ice Sheet Program
ISBN : 9780875900575
Greenland Ice Core by Chester C. Langway,Hans Oeschger,W. Dansgaard Pdf
Melt Water Retention Processes in Snow and Firn on Ice Sheets and Glaciers: Observations and Modeling
W. Tad Pfeffer,Jason E. Box,Robert S. Fausto,Horst Machguth
Author : W. Tad Pfeffer,Jason E. Box,Robert S. Fausto,Horst Machguth
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889456192
Melt Water Retention Processes in Snow and Firn on Ice Sheets and Glaciers: Observations and Modeling by W. Tad Pfeffer,Jason E. Box,Robert S. Fausto,Horst Machguth Pdf
Melt takes place where the surface of glaciers or ice sheets interacts with the atmosphere. While the processes governing surface melt are fairly well understood, the pathways of the meltwater, from its origin to the moment it leaves a glacier system, remain enigmatic. It is not even guaranteed that meltwater leaves a glacier or ice sheet. On Greenland, for example, only slightly more than 50% of the meltwater runs off. The remainder mostly refreezes within the so-called firn cover of the ice sheet. This eBook contains 11 studies which tackle the challenge of understanding meltwater retention in snow and firn from various angles. The studies focus both on mountain glaciers and on the Greenland ice sheet and address challenges such as measuring firn properties, quantifying their influence on meltwater retention, modelling firn processes and meltwater refreezing as well as unravelling the mechanisms within the recently discovered Greenland firn aquifers.
Surface Topography of the Greenland Ice Sheet from Satellite Radar Altimetry
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Greenland
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012121278
Surface Topography of the Greenland Ice Sheet from Satellite Radar Altimetry by Anonim Pdf
This document describes the process of production of maps of the surface of the Greenland ice sheet from data from remote sensing by a Seasat satellite, and defines ice flow directions, together with maps of the Jakobshavn Glacier drainage and the ice divide near Crete Station.
The Distribution of Ten-meter Snow Temperatures on the Greenland Ice Sheet
Steven J. Mock,W. F. Weeks,Wilford F. Weeks
Author : Steven J. Mock,W. F. Weeks,Wilford F. Weeks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Glacial climates
ISBN : MINN:31951P011776940
The Distribution of Ten-meter Snow Temperatures on the Greenland Ice Sheet by Steven J. Mock,W. F. Weeks,Wilford F. Weeks Pdf
All available 10-m snow temperatures from the Greenland ice sheet have been collected and analyzed using multiple regression techniques to develop equations capable of accurately predicting these temperatures. The resulting equations show that 10-m snow temperatures in north Greenland and its sub-areas can be accurately predicted from the independent parameters, latitude and elevation. Longitude was found to be another significant parameter in south Greenland. In all cases the values of the multiple correlation coefficients were .928 or greater. Gradients of 10-m snow temperatures vs elevation for north Greenland are close to the dry adiabatic lapse rate, indicating adiabatic warming of katabatic winds as the controlling mechanism in the altitudinal distribution of both mean annual air temperatures and 10-m snow temperatures in dry snow. The data also suggest that south Greenland is colder with respect to its latitude and longitude than north Greenland. An isotherm contour map showing the distribution of 10-m snow temperatures on the Greenland ice sheet calculated from the prediction equations was prepared. A tabulation of the elevations and sources as well as brief studies of Marie Byrd Land and Victoria Land in the Antarctic are included. (Author).