Course Contents
- Ice sheet, ice stream-glacier systems and their dynamics
- Structure of ice and constitutive relations
- Balance equations of ice sheets and glaciers, boundary conditions and approximations
- Processes in ice sheets: firn densification, sliding, calving and ice sheet hydrology
- recent research topics in ice sheet dynamics and stability
Literature
Cuffey&Patterson, Physics of Glaciers, 2010
Greve & Blatter ‘Dynamics of Glaciers and Ice Sheets’ Monograph, Series Advances in Geophysical
and Environmental Mechanics" (AGEM), Springer, 2007
Preconditions
Basic knowledge in mathematics, physics and mechanics
Official Course Description
After successful completion of the module, students will have acquired an understanding of ice sheet and glacier dynamics and its processes, as well as having experience in applying the methods of continuum mechanics in glaciology.
Sustainability Reference of the Course Contents
This course contributes to SDG13 'Climate action'.
- Ice sheet, ice stream-glacier systems and their dynamics
- Structure of ice and constitutive relations
- Balance equations of ice sheets and glaciers, boundary conditions and approximations
- Processes in ice sheets: firn densification, sliding, calving and ice sheet hydrology
- recent research topics in ice sheet dynamics and stability
Literature
Cuffey&Patterson, Physics of Glaciers, 2010
Greve & Blatter ‘Dynamics of Glaciers and Ice Sheets’ Monograph, Series Advances in Geophysical
and Environmental Mechanics" (AGEM), Springer, 2007
Preconditions
Basic knowledge in mathematics, physics and mechanics
Official Course Description
After successful completion of the module, students will have acquired an understanding of ice sheet and glacier dynamics and its processes, as well as having experience in applying the methods of continuum mechanics in glaciology.
Sustainability Reference of the Course Contents
This course contributes to SDG13 'Climate action'.
- Lehrende: Angelika Humbert
- Lehrende: Ralf Müller
Semester: WT 2023/24