Course Material

Course Material 2024

Continuum Mechanics (Truffer)


Notes

Exercises

Solutions 


Glacier Mass Balance (Hock)


Lecture notes

Slides

Exercises Part 1

Solutions Part 1

Exercise Part 2

Solutions Part 2

Glacier Dynamics (Aschwanden)

Lecture slides

Exercises

Solutions

Thermodynamics (Aschwanden)

Lecture slides 

Notes

Exercises

Solutions

Debris-covered Glacier (Rounce)

Lecture slides

Notes

Glacier outburst floods and other hazards (Rounce)

Lecture slides

Notes

Glacial geomorphology/erosion (Loso)

Lecture slides


Glacier meteorology and energy balance (Hock)


Lecture notes

Slides

Exercises

Solutions


Ice sheet modeling (Bueler)


Slides, notes, and code (GitHub)

Exercises and solutions are in the 'exercises' folder


Remote sensing (Alley/Fahnestock):


Lecture notes

Remote sensing I: Optical sensors (Alley) (pdf) (PowerPoint)

Remote sensing IV: Measuring ice elevation (Alley) (pdf) (PowerPoint)

Exercises II and III

Exercise and Solutions I

Exercise and Solutions II


Glacier hydrology (Flowers)


Observations and Concepts (Lecture slides)

Theory (Lecture slides)

Exercises 

Solutions


Inverse methods (Truffer)


Lecture notes

Slides


Tidewater glaciers


Lecture notes

Slides


Glacier surges (Flowers)


Lecture slides