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