Course Material

Course Material 2014

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Mandatory reading prior to course:

1. Text book chapter by Bob Anderson, Chapter 8: Glaciers and glacial geology, pages 212-254
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2. Cogley et al., 2011: Glossary of glacier mass balance and related terms. Chapters 2-7.
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Course material from the International School in Glaciology (2014) is posted below:

More files will be posted as they are submitted.

Continuum Mechanics (Martin Truffer)

• • Notes

  • Exercises

  • Solutions Exercises: contact instructor

Inverse Methods (Martin Truffer)

• • Lecture

Ice flow and thermodynamics (Andy Aschwanden)

• • Lecture ice dynamics

  • Lecture thermodynamics

  • Exercises ice dynamics & thermodynamics

  • Exercises Solutions

  • Notes ice dynamics

  • Notes thermodynamics

Tidewater glaciers (Martin Truffer)

• • Lecture

Surging glaciers (Jon Ove Hagen)

• • Lecture

Ice Sheet Modeling (Ed Bueler)

• • Lecture

  • Notes

  • Exercises Solutions

Mass Balance (Jon Ove Hagen)

• • Lecture

Mass Balance (Regine Hock)

• • Lecture

  • Exercises

  • Exercises (Solutions)

  • Notes

Glacier Meteorology and Energy Balance (Regine Hock)

• • Lecture

  • Exercises

  • Exercises (Solutions)

  • Notes

Glacier Hydrology (Regine Hock)

• • Lecture

Glacier geology (Mike Loso)

• • Lecture

  • Notes/References

Remote Sensing (Nick Barrand)

• • Lecture 1 (Principles of RS)

  • Lecture 2 (Deriving glacier products)

  • Lecture 3 (Mass balance form RS)

  • Lecture 4 (Global mass balance from RS)

  • Exercises 1

  • Exercises 1 (Solutions)

  • Exercises 2

  • Exercises 2 (Solutions)

  • Notes

Mass Balance from GRACE (Tyler Sutterley)

• • Lecture

Arctic sea ice (Vladimir Alexeev)

• • Lecture

Public Talk in Kennicott (Martin Truffer)

• • Talk