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Summary
Summary
The cryosphere comprises all the frozen water and soil on the surface of the Earth. Mass Balance of the Cryosphere focuses on two key components of this environment: land ice (in the form of ice sheets, caps and glaciers) and sea ice. These components have been identified as important indicators of both short and long term climate change. Early chapters cover the theory behind field-based and satellite observations, and modelling of mass balance, providing a thorough grounding in all the concepts and issues presented later in the book. Later chapters review our current understanding of the present and predicted future mass balance of the cryosphere. This is an important reference for all scientists working in the fields of climate change, environmental sciences and glaciology. It is written by leading authors in the field, and is fully integrated to provide a coherent, cross-referenced and consistent exposition on the subject.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction and background Jonathan Bamber and Antony Payne |
Part I Observational Techniques and Methods |
2 In situ measurement techniques: land iceJon Ove Hagen and Niels Reeh |
3 In situ measurement techniques: sea icePeter Wadhams |
4 Remote sensing measurement techniquesJonathan Bamber and Ron Kwok |
Part II Modelling Techniques and Methods |
5 Modelling land ice surface mass balanceWouter Greuell and Christophe Genthon |
6 Modelling land ice dynamicsKees van der Veen and Anthony Payne |
7 Modelling sea ice dynamicsWilliam D. Hibler, III |
Part III The Mass Balance of Sea Ice |
8 Sea ice observations Seymour LaxonOla Johannessen and Martin Miles and Peter Wadhams and John E. Walsh |
9 Sea-ice modellingGregory M. Flato |
Part IV The Mass Balance of the Ice Sheets |
10 Greenland: recent mass-balance observationsRobert H. Thomas and the PARCA investigators |
11 Greenland: modellingRoderik van der Wal |
12 Mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet: observational aspectsCharles Bentley |
13 Antarctica: modellingPhilippe Huybrechts |
Part V The Mass Balance of Ice Caps and Glaciers |
14 Arctic ice caps and glaciersJulian Dowdeswell |
15 Glaciers and ice caps: historical background and strategies of worldwide monitoringWilfried Haeberli |
16 Glaciers and the study of climate and sea-level changeMark Dyurgerov and Mark Meier |
17 Conclusions, summary and outlookJonathan Bamber and Antony Payne |