Introduction to the physics of the cryosphere / Melody Sandells and Daniela Flocco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sandells, Melody, author.

Flocco, Daniela, author.

Contributor:

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP (Series). Release 1.

IOP concise physics

[IOP release 1]

IOP concise physics, 2053-2571

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes.

Cryosphere.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (chiefly color).

Distribution:

Bristol [England] : IOP Publishing.

Place of Publication:

San Rafael [California] : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2014]

System Details:

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Biography/History:

Melody Sandells, Research Fellow at the Environmental Systems Science Centre, University of Reading. Research interests include earth observation of snow and soil moisture, snow physics, snow vegetation radiative interactions, microwave remote sensing and hydrology. Current research includes the development of a data assimilation system to improve snow mass retrievals, coupling of snow and soil systems, modelling and remote sensing of snow grain size evolution, the role of snow in the accumulation of water on ice shelves and improvement of snow microwave emission models. Fieldwork experience in North America, sub-Arctic and Arctic regions. Daniela Flocco earned a degree in Environmental Sciences, majoring in oceanography at the Universitá Parthenope in Naples. She submitted her PhD thesis on the geophysics of Antarctic coastal polynyas and their impact on dense water production based on her studies at SPRI and DAMTP at the University of Cambridge. She is now working with Daniel Feltham as a PDRA on the inclusion of the physics of melt ponds in the CICE model.

Summary:

Introduction to the Physics of the Cryosphere is intended for graduates with a numerical sciences background, particularly those who are heading towards postgraduate study or are generally interested in environmental physics. Conservation equations underpin the physics encompassed in this book, although the interesting part comes in how the necessary variables and boundary conditions are defined to be able to simulate changes in the cryosphere. Phase changes between ice, liquid water and water vapour also come into play.

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgements

The authors

The cryosphere

Permafrost

Snow

Land ice

Sea ice

Recent changes in the cryosphere.

Notes:

"Version: 20141101"--Title page verso.

"A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on February 3, 2015).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781627053044

9781627053037

OCLC:

902994508

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.