Mass Balance of the Cryosphere: Observations and Modelling of Contemporary and Future Changes

ISBN: 9781108457217 出版年：2004 页码：664 Jonathan L Bamber Antony J Payne John Houghton Cambridge University Press

1. Introduction and background Jonathan Bamber and Antony Payne Part I. Observational Techniques and Methods: 2. In situ measurement techniques: land ice Jon Ove Hagen and Niels Reeh 3. In situ measurement techniques: sea ice Peter Wadhams 4. Remote sensing measurement techniques Jonathan Bamber and Ron Kwok Part II. Modelling Techniques and Methods: 5. Modelling land ice surface mass balance Wouter Greuell and Christophe Genthon 6. Modelling land ice dynamics Kees van der Veen and Anthony Payne 7. Modelling sea ice dynamics William D. Hibler, III Part III. The Mass Balance of Sea Ice: 8. Sea ice observations Seymour Laxon, Ola Johannessen, Martin Miles, Peter Wadhams and John E. Walsh 9. Sea-ice modelling Gregory M. Flato Part IV. The Mass Balance of the Ice Sheets: 10. Greenland: recent mass-balance observations Robert H. Thomas and the PARCA investigators 11. Greenland: modelling Roderik van der Wal 12. Mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet: observational aspects Charles Bentley 13. Antarctica: modelling Philippe Huybrechts Part V. The Mass Balance of Ice Caps and Glaciers: 14. Arctic ice caps and glaciers Julian Dowdeswell 15. Glaciers and ice caps: historical background and strategies of worldwide monitoring Wilfried Haeberli 16. Glaciers and the study of climate and sea-level change Mark Dyurgerov and Mark Meier 17. Conclusions, summary and outlook Jonathan Bamber and Antony Payne.