Course Material

Course Material 2024

Continuum Mechanics (Truffer)

Glacier Mass Balance (Hock)

Exercises

Solutions

Glacier Dynamics (Aschwanden)

Thermodynamics (Aschwanden)

Debris-covered Glacier (Rounce)

Glacier outburst floods and other hazards (Rounce)

Glacial geomorphology/erosion (Loso)

Glacier meteorology and energy balance (Hock)

Ice sheet modeling (Bueler)

Slides, notes, and code (GitHub)

Exercises and solutions are in the 'exercises' folder

Remote sensing (Alley/Fahnestock):

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

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

Glacier hydrology (Flowers)

Observations and Concepts (Lecture slides)

Inverse methods (Truffer)

Tidewater glaciers

Glacier surges (Flowers)