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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Barry, Roger Graham (1935-....)
Gan, Thian Yew
Titre(s) : The global cryosphere [Texte imprimé] : past, present and future / Roger G. Barry,.. Thian Yew Gan,...
Édition : 2nd ed.
Publication : Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge university press, copyright 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-573 p.) : ill. ; 26 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 451-562. Index
Sujet(s) : Cryosphère -- Histoire
Glaciologie -- Histoire
Inlandsis -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
551.31 (23e éd.) = Glaciologie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781108487559. - ISBN 1108487556 (rel.). - ISBN 9781108720588. - ISBN 1108720587
(br.). - ISBN 9781108767262 (eBook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47109220z
Notice n° :
FRBNF47109220
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction ; Definition and extent ; The role of the cryosphere in the climate
system ; The organization of snow and ice observations and research ; Remote sensing
of the cryosphere ; The terrestrial cryosphere ; Snowfall and snow cover ; History
; Snow formation ; Snow cover ; Snow cover modeling in land surface schemes of GCMs
; Snow interception by the canopy ; Sublimation of snow ; Snow metamorphism ; In
situ measurements of snow ; Remote sensing of snowpack properties, snow cover area
(SCA), and snow water equivalent (SWE) ; Snowmelt modelling ; Recent observed changes
in snowpack and snow cover ; Avalanches ; History ; Avalanche characteristics
; Avalanche models ; Trends in avalanche conditions ; Glaciers and ice caps ; History
; Definitions ; Glacier characteristics ; Mass balance ; Remote sensing ; Glacier
flow and flowlines ; Scaling ; Glacier modeling ; Ice caps ; Glacier hydrology
; Changes in glaciers and ice caps ; Ice sheets ; History of exploration ; Mass
balance ; Remote sensing ; Mechanisms of ice sheet changes ; The Greenland ice
sheet ; Antarctica ; Overall ice sheet changes ; Ice sheet models ; Ice sheet
and ice shelf interaction ; Ice sheet contributions to sea level changes ; Frozen
ground and permafrost ; History ; Frozen ground definitions and extent ; Thermal
relationships ; Vertical characteristics of permafrost ; Remote sensing ; Ground
ice ; Permafrost models ; Geomorphological features associated with permafrost
; Changes in permafrost and soil freezing ; Arctic Infrastructure ; Freshwater ice:
lakes, rivers and icings ; History ; Lake ice ; Trends in lake ice cover ; River
ice ; Ice jam floods ; Trends in river ice cover ; Icings ; The Marine Cryosphere
; Sea ice ; History ; Sea ice Climatology and characteristics ; Ice drift and ocean
circulation ; Sea ice models ; Leads, polynyas and pressure ridges ; Ice thickness
; Trends in sea ice extent and concentration from paleo and NSIDC data ; Ice shelves
and icebergs ; History ; Ice shelves ; Ice streams ; Conditions beneath ice shelves
; Ice shelf buttressing ; Icebergs ; Ice islands ; The Cryosphere Past and Future
; The cryosphere in the past ; Introduction ; Snowball Earth and ice-free Cretaceous
; Phanerozoic glaciations ; Late Cenozoic polar glaciations ; The Quaternary ;
The Holocene ; The future cryosphere: impacts of global warming ; Introduction
; General observations ; Recent warming and cryospheric changes ; Climate projections
; Projected changes to Northern Hemisphere snow cover ; Projected changes in land
ice ; Projected permafrost changes ; Projected changes in freshwater ice ; Projected
sea ice changes ; Projected glacier changes ; Applications ; Applications of snow
and ice research ; Snowfall ; Freezing precipitation ; Avalanches ; Ice avalanches
; Winter sports industry ; Water resources ; Hydropower ; Snow melt floods ; Freshwater
ice ; Ice roads ; Sea ice ; Glaciers and ice sheets ; Icebergs ; Permafrost and
ground ice ; Seasonal ground freezing
