The Physics of Glaciers, Fourth Edition

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Book Detail 

Hardcover: 704 pages

Publisher: Academic Press; 4 edition (May 17, 2010)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0123694612

ISBN-13: 978-0123694614

File Size : 8.5 Mb | File Format : PDF

Book Description 

Now in its 4th Edition, this classic text covers the physical principles underlying the behavior of glaciers -- terrestrial ice bodies originating as accumulations of snow -- including mountain glaciers, small ice caps, ice sheets, and shelves. New material on climate change includes interactions between ice sheets and the ocean and atmosphere, paleoclimate reconstruction using ice cores, Quaternary climate history and the ice ages, and sea level rise. The book also explores topics of interest to geologists and geophysicists, including glacial connections to geomorphology, sedimentation, isostasy, and tectonics.
-Completely updated and revised, with 30% new material including climate change
-Accessible to students, and an essential guide for researchers
-Authored by preeminent glaciologists

Review

"In the preface to the first edition of The Physics of Glaciers, published in 1969, Stan Paterson made note of the impressive observational and theoretical advances that had taken place during the preceding two decades and set the stage for his efforts to summarize the state of the field. The pace of data collection has continued to accelerate with the development of an impressive array of new tools and techniques and the added incentive of current concerns over the response and role of glaciers and ice sheets in a warming climate. Now we arrive at the fourth edition, a collaborative effort by Paterson and Kurt Cuffey to provide an updated assessment of glacier physics and related topics. The result is a major achievement, involving a comprehensive rewriting and reorganization of the material contained in earlier editions, and including a significant amount of new material that will be appreciated by both old and new audiences."--Pure and Applied Geophysics

"The interested reader will find much else to enjoy in this book. For example, by using square brackets for grouping, and curved parentheses for arguments of functions, the equations are easier to read than typical. The appendix on stress and strain will be a favorite of students in classes extending far beyond glaciology. In short, The Physics of Glaciers by Cuffey and Paterson is at once instructive and authoritative, a textbook and a reference source. It is a towering intellectual achievement that, quite simply, defines the science of glaciers. Modern students may not be as easily impressed as I was three decades ago, but I expect that in addition to bragging about talking to 'the W.S.B. Paterson', students will be celebrating meeting 'the K.M. Cuffey' for a long time to come."--Journal of Glaciology, Vol. 57, No. 202, 2011, page 383

Table of Contents 

Chapter 01. Introduction
Chapter 02. Transformation of Snow to Ice
Chapter 03. Grain-Scale Structures and Deformation of Ice
Chapter 04. Mass Balance Processes: 1. Overview and Regimes
Chapter 05. Mass Balance Processes: 2. Surface Ablation and Energy Budget
Chapter 06. Glacial Hydrology
Chapter 07. Basal Slip
Chapter 08. The Flow of Ice Masses
Chapter 09. Temperatures in Ice Masses
Chapter 10. Large-Scale Structures
Chapter 11. Reaction of Glaciers to Environmental Changes
Chapter 12. Glacier Surges
Chapter 13. Ice Sheets and the Earth System
Chapter 14. Ice, Sea Level, and Contemporary Climate Change
Chapter 15. Ice Core Studies
Appendix A: A Primer on Stress and Strain
Index

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