Glacial Isostatic Adjustment : Theory for a Spherically Symmetric Earth and Numerical Results / by Giorgio Spada, Daniele Melini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spada, Giorgio., Author.

Melini, Daniele., Author.

Series:

Springer Geophysics, 2364-9127

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geophysics.

Mathematics--Data processing.

Mathematics.

Gravitation.

Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis.

Gravitational Physics.

Local Subjects:

Geophysics.

Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis.

Gravitational Physics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIX, 393 p. 74 illus., 58 illus. in color.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2025.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2025.

Summary:

This book aims at presenting a synthetic but self-contained theory of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA), firmly grounded on physics and mathematics. However, at the same time, it also describes various phenomenological aspects, making it appealing also to a broad audience of Earth scientists not having a technical background. The interest on GIA is motivated by the entangled processes involved, reflecting interactions between the solid Earth, the oceans, and the cryosphere. In the context of climate change, GIA has a special role. For example, ground or space-based geodetic methods aimed at observing the mass balance variations of the contemporary ice sheets require a GIA correction before they can be suitably interpreted. For these reasons, GIA modeling has seen a considerable development recently, with a growing attention by a broad audience of scientists in the fields of geophysics, geology, geodesy, and Earth system science.

Contents:

1.Gravity, rheology and mass distributions

2.Love numbers and Green’s functions

3.The Earth’s response to surface loads

4.Rotational response of the Earth

5.The Sea Level Equation

6.Solving the Sea Level Equation.

ISBN:

9783031905384