Introduction to the Physics of the Cryosphere

Melody Sandells, Daniela Flocco (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

88 Seiten

2014
Morgan and Claypool Life Sciences (Verlag)
978-1-62705-302-0 (ISBN)

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The cryosphere encompasses all regions of the planet that experiences water in ice form for some portion of the year. In this book, authors Melody Sandells and Daniela Flocco deliver an introduction to the physics of the cryosphere. This includes the Arctic, Antarctic, large parts of North America, Eurasia, and some parts of the Southern Hemisphere. Frozen soil, permafrost, snow, glaciers, ice sheet and ice shelves; river, lake and sea ice are all features of the Earth’s surface in the cryosphere, with snow and sea ice being among the most dynamic.

Researchers in this and related fields can use this book as a quick introduction or refresher to the topic of the physics of the cryosphere.

Melody Sandells studied Physics (MSci) at Imperial College, London before undertaking her PhD at the University of Reading on Modelling the Impact of Vegetation on the Seasonal Snowcover, which involved a four month field experiment in the Owyhee Mountains of Idaho. She moved on to study the densification of snow at the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling in University College London. Later, she returned to the University of Reading as a member of the European Space Agency Expert Scientific Laboratory for the SMOS mission. Since then, Mel has dedicated her research to understanding how to improve global observations of snow mass, visiting the Canadian sub-Arctic, and Nordic Arctic along the way.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.11.2014
Reihe/Serie	IOP Concise Physics
Verlagsort	San Rafael, CA
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	333 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geophysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10	1-62705-302-6 / 1627053026
ISBN-13	978-1-62705-302-0 / 9781627053020
Zustand	Neuware