Dynamics of Ice Sheets and Glaciers (Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Mathematics) - Hardcover

Greve, Ralf; Blatter, Heinz

 
9783642034145: Dynamics of Ice Sheets and Glaciers (Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Mathematics)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3642034144 ISBN 13: 9783642034145
Verlag: Springer, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Dynamics of Ice Sheets and Glaciers presents an introduction to the dynamics and thermodynamics of flowing ice masses on Earth. Based on an outline of general continuum mechanics, the different initial-boundary-value problems for the flow of ice sheets, ice shelves, ice caps and glaciers are systematically derived. Special emphasis is put on developing hierarchies of approximations for the different systems, and suitable numerical solution techniques are discussed. A separate chapter is devoted to glacial isostasy. The book is appropriate for graduate courses in glaciology, cryospheric sciences, environmental sciences, geophysics and related fields. Standard undergraduate knowledge of mathematics (calculus, linear algebra) and physics (classical mechanics, thermodynamics) provide a sufficient background for successfully studying the text.

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Verlag
Springer
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3642034144
ISBN 13 
9783642034145
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
302
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Dt. Universitätsverlag
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Abraham-Lincoln-Str. 46
Wiesbaden
65198
Deutschland

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