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  1. Zeitschrift für Gletscherkunde, für Eiszeitforschung und Geschichte des Klimas: Annales de glaciologie. Annals of glaciology. Annali di glaciologia (German Edition) by Unknown, 2010-08-20
  2. OCEANUS VOLUME 29 #1 SPRING, 1986 THE ARCTIC OCEAN GLACIOLOGY MARINE ECOSYSTEMS SEA ICE
  3. Glaciology: Ice Age, Snowball Earth, Moraine, Fjord, Finger Lakes, Drumlin, Till, Retreat of Glaciers Since 1850, Tunnel Valley
  4. Glaciology
  5. Zeitschrift für Gletscherkunde, für Eiszeitforschung und Geschichte des Klimas: Annales de glaciologie. Annals of glaciology. Annali di glaciologia (German Edition) by Unknown, 2010-08-20
  6. II: GEOLOGY AND GLACIOLOGY. by K. S. Sandford, 1925
  7. Elsevier's Dictionary of GlaciologyDefinitions in English & Russian by V. M. Kotlyakov, 1990-10-01
  8. Glaciological Data. Snow Cover. by et al Marilyn J. Shartran, 1979
  9. Papers from the International Symposium on Representation of the Cryosphere in Climate and Hydrological Models held at Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 12-15 August 1996 (Annals of glaciology)
  10. Papers from the International Symposium on Physical and Mechanical Processes in Ice in Relation to Glacier and Ice-Sheet Modelling: Held in Chamonix, (Annals of Glaciology,)
  11. Principles of structural glaciology by P. A Shumskii, 1958
  12. Papers from the Seventh International Symposium on Antarctic Glaciology: Isag-7: Held in Milan, Italy, 25-29 August, 2003
  13. Glaciology (Scientific reports - Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1955-1958; 5) by H Lister, 1960
  14. Papers from the International Symposium on Snow and Avalanches, held in Chamonix Mont-Blanc, France, 26-30 May 1997 (Annals of glaciology)

61. Www.seppyo.org - IGS Sym. Arctic Glaciology
?. Print. IGS Sym. Arctic glaciology. INTERNATIONAL GLACIOLOGICAL SOCIETY, International Symposium on Arctic glaciology.
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62. Climatology And Glaciology Programme
EGS XXVII General Assembly, Nice, France, April 2002. EGS02 Meeting Programme. Climatology and glaciology, For PC only PC Overviews. ERE1.
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63. Research In Hornsund: Glaciology And Environmental Monitoring
glaciology and environmental monitoring. The station monitors changes and dynamics of Hansbreen and Werenskioldbreen glaciers by
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The station monitors changes and dynamics of Hansbreen and Werenskioldbreen glaciers by:
  • Laser range finder measurements of glacier movement dynamics in ablation zone
  • Measurements of snow cover thickness on the glaciers (all year round) and its analysis (in the end of accumulation seazon)
  • Photographic documentation of Hansbreen glacier front and surface.
The mass balance of Hansbreen has been measured since 1989. Responsible for the research: Piotr Glowacki glowacki@igf.edu.pl
Measurement of glacier movement dynamics
by means of a laser range finder (July, 2000)

Hansbreen glacier investigeted by us is of mountain type, length 16 km, width near the front about 2.5 km, surface about 57 km . The glacier's bottom reaches 100 m below sea level. Maximum thickness: 400 m. Average speed of the front retreat calculated since 1936 is 17 m per year.
Hansbreen front recedes systematically
like in the case of most glaciers on Spitsbergen.
The station is a base for monitoring of changes in polar environment, including the ones brought about by industrial activity in other parts of the world (antropopression):

64. Glaciology :: Online Encyclopedia :: Information Genius
glaciology. Online Encyclopedia glaciology is the study of glaciers, or more generally the study of ice and natural phenomena that involve ice.
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Glaciology is the study of glaciers, or more generally the study of ice and natural phenomena that involve ice. It is an interdisciplinary earth science that integrates geology climatology meteorology hydrology ... biology , and ecology . The presence of ice on Mars and Europa brings in an extraterrestrial component to the field. Areas of study within glaciology include glacial history and the reconstruction of past glaciation patterns, effects of glaciers on climate and vice versa, the dynamics of ice movement, the contributions of glaciers to erosion, lifeforms that live in the ice, and so forth. Unsurprisingly, glaciology is one of the key areas supported by polar research.
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65. Kilimanjaro Geology And Glaciology
Kilimanjaro Geology and glaciology. Kilimanjaro lies on a tectonic line intersection 80km. east of the tectonically active Rift Valley.
http://www.kilimanjaro.cc/kgeology.htm
Kilimanjaro routes and general info glacial recession flora and fauna weather ... tours
Kilimanjaro Geology and Glaciology
Kilimanjaro lies on a tectonic line intersection 80km. east of the tectonically active Rift Valley. The activity which created this stratovolcano dates back less than a million years and the central ash pit on Kibo, the highest volcanic centre, may be only several hundred years old. Steam and sulphur fumaroles here are indicative of residual activity.
Volcanology of Kilimanjaro
Shira and Mawenzi were two other areas of volcanic activity. Both became inactive before Kibo. The Shira volcanic cone collapsed leaving the Shira Ridge as part of its Caldera Rim. Mawenzi has been heavily eroded to leave a mass of steep-sided ridges and summits, particularly dramatic on the infrequently-seen eastern side. Kibo is the best preserved centre; it has three concentric craters and the outer crater rim rises to Uhuru Point – the chief summit. The middle, Reusch crater contains the main fumaroles and in its centre the 130m. deep and 400m. wide Ash Pit. The outer crater has been breached by lava flows in several places, the most dramatic of these being the Western Breach. The ash and lava covered slopes of Kibo are mainly gentle-angled from the steep, glaciated precipices which defend its southern and south-western flanks. The impressive rock walls on Kilimanjaro and Mawenzi are generally composed of lavas and ashes.

66. Nearctica - Geophysics - Glaciology
glaciology. Click Here. Links to Other glaciologyRelated WWW Sites. A set of links to academic and governmental organizations working in glaciology. SEA ICE.
http://www.nearctica.com/geology/glacier.htm
Glaciology Special Segments Butterflies of North America Conifers of North America Eastern Birds List of N.A. Insects Home Eastern Wildflowers General Topics Natural History Ecology Family Environment Evolution Home Education Home Conservation Geophysics Paleontology Commercial Organizations Return to Geophysics Main Page A glacier is an accumulation of ice, air, water, and rock debris. It is a large enough quantity of ice to flow slowly with gravity due to its own mass. The ice can be as large as a continent, such as the ice sheet covering Antarctica, or it can fill a small valley between two mountains. The page is divided into three topics: Glaciers Sea Ice Icebergs If you are looking for information on the Ice Ages, try the Ice Ages page in the Paleontology segment of Nearctica GLACIERS Glacier Power: An Earth Science Curriculum Element . Donna Sandberg. A wonderful site about glaciers designed for students. Learn the basic facts about glaciers, their anatomy, and why they move. There are student activities related to glaciers and stories as well. There are Quick Time movies and animations. The site comes with a teacher's guide. Highly recommended although some of the animations are very slow. Glacier . Rice University. Glacier is a tremendous site for learning about glaciers. Although the pages deal mostly with the glaciers of Antarctica, the information is equally relevant to the ice sheets and alpine glaciers of North America. There are sections on what glaciers are, how they are formed, and how they move. Find out how glaciers change with time and where glaciers are located around the world. There is even a section on the causes of ice ages. Highly recommended.

67. Glaciology
Mt RainierGlacier ice covers approximately ten percent of the Earth s land surfaces, and has scientific and economic importance.
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Glacier ice covers approximately ten percent of the Earth's land surfaces, and has scientific and economic importance. The amount of ice locked up in glacier ice affects sea level, and many urban areas around the world depend on glaciers to moderate the fluctuations in water supply during the year. With its high spatial resolution and near-global coverage, ASTER will be a vital tool for monitoring and mapping of glaciers around the world. A project known as Global Land Ice Monitoring from Space (GLIMS) will use ASTER data to monitor the spatial extent, velocity fields, and other glaciological parameters for glaciers around the world. Applications Team Documents Spectral Library ... Image Gallery
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68. Science Books
Energy; Fishes. Flower Plants. Forestry; Geology Geophys. glaciology. Hydrogeology; Hazards GlobalChange; Insects. Invertebrate. Mammals. Marine. glaciology.
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69. Glaciology Home Page
Welcome to Glacier and Ice Sheet Research Group. English version is HERE.
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    71. Publications Tropical Glaciology Group
    TROPICAL. glaciology GROUP. INNSBRUCK UNIVERSITY. 2001, Kaser, G. (2001) Glacierclimate interaction at low latitudes. Journal of glaciology, 47(157), 195-204.
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    Georges, C. (2004): The 20 th Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research. , in press. Abstract Full text Juen, I., C. Georges, and G. Kaser (2004): Modelling seasonal runoff variations for glacierized catchment areas in the tropical Cordillera Blanca, Perú. Global and Planetary Change , submitted. Kaser, G., I. Juen, and C. Georges (2004): A glacier mass balance model suitable for low-latitude conditions. Global and Planetary Change , submitted. Kaser, G., C. Georges, I. Juen, and T. Mölg (2004): Low-latitude glaciers: Unique global climate indicators and essential contributors to regional fresh water supply. A conceptual approach. In: Huber, U., H. K. M. Bugmann, and M. A. Reasoner ( eds. Global Change and Mountain Regions: A State of Knowledge Overview . Kluwer: New York, in press. Full text Kaser, G., C. Georges, I. Juen, T. Mölg, P. Wagnon, and B. Francou (2004): The behavior of modern low-latitude glaciers. Past Global Changes News Full text Kaser, G., D.R. Hardy, T. Mölg, R.S. Bradley, and T.M. Hyera (2004): Modern glacier retreat on Kilimanjaro as evidence of climate change: Observations and facts. International Journal of Climatology , 329-339, doi: 10.1002/joc.1008.

    72. TROPICAL GLACIOLOGY GROUP (Innsbruck)
    TROPICAL. glaciology GROUP. INNSBRUCK UNIVERSITY. NEWS A potential disaster in the icy Andes a regrettable blunder. HOME. In the low
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    HOME In the low latitudes, seasonal thermal conditions are highly homogeneous but the oscillation of global circulation features induces a more or less pronounced seasonality in moisture advection and air humidity. Inter-annual variations in both amplitude and length of each season are marked. Analysis of modern glacier fluctuations as well as energy balance studies on tropical mountains indicate the strong impact of variations in air humidity on glacier ablation. Studying low latitude glaciers opens the view to a variety of climate variables, and to a broad spectrum of scales.
    Micrometeorological processes are driven by air humidity related variables to a great extent.
    On a regional scale, the dry season´s runoff is limited to glacier melt in many cases. This, in turn, is reduced due to strong sublimation.
    Conclusions on climate and climate change are of global view. MEMBERS RESEARCH PARTNERS PUBLICATIONS ... Institute for Geography , University of Innsbruck
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    73. World Data Centerfor Glaciology, Boulder
    The World Data Center A for glaciology has digital data on numerous forms of snow and ice research including snow depth and extent; sea ice extent and
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    Dr Roger G. Barry, Director Tel: +1 303 492 5171 WDC for Glaciology Tel: +1 303 492 6199 CIRES, Campus Box 449 Fax: +1 303 492 2468 University of Colorado BOULDER CO 80309 U.S.A. Internet: nsidc@kryos.colorado.edu U.S.A. Internet: rbarry@kryos.colorado.edu WWW Home Page: http://nsidc.org/NOAA/index.html Maintained by: Operated under a cooperative agreement between the University of Colorado, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The WDC for Glaciology, Boulder is collocated with the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). Summary of Data Held: Digital data on numerous forms of snow and ice research including snow depth and extent; sea ice extent and concentration; ice cores; passive microwave data; freshwater ice. Other data holdings include imagery, an historical glacier photograph collection, and published information relating to all aspects of snow, ice, and permafrost research. User Services: Located at 1540 30th Street, Boulder, Colorado. The WDC for Glaciology, Boulder is open to visitors during normal working hours. Data copying, processing and analysis are available through in-house computers and image analysis capabilities. Literature searches on any topic can be performed on CITATION, the in-house on-line bibliographic data bank. Mail and telephone queries are welcome.

    74. Learn More About Glaciology In The Online Encyclopedia.
    Visit the Online Encyclopedia and learn more and get your questions answered about glaciology. You are here Online Encyclopedia glaciology. glaciology.
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    Glaciology is the study of glaciers, or more generally the study of ice and natural phenomena that involve ice. It is an interdisciplinary earth science that integrates geology climatology meteorology hydrology ... biology , and ecology . The presence of ice on Mars and Europa brings in an extraterrestrial component to the field. Areas of study within glaciology include glacial history and the reconstruction of past glaciation patterns, effects of glaciers on climate and vice versa, the dynamics of ice movement, the contributions of glaciers to erosion, lifeforms that live in the ice, and so forth. Unsurprisingly, glaciology is one of the key areas supported by polar research.
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    75. Australian Antarctic Division - Glaciology In Antarctica
    » glaciology in Antarctica. glaciology in Antarctica. What The glaciology program also produce Climate Data sets Climate Data Sets. Metadata
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    76. Australian Antarctic Division - Glaciology
    glaciology. January 11 17, 2004. by Doug Thost, Glaciologist, Brown Glacier. Another frustrating week as far as our surveying
    http://www.antdiv.gov.au/default.asp?casid=13425

    77. Glaciology. Everything You Wanted To Know About Glaciology But Had No Clue How T
    glaciology. Everything you wanted to know about glaciology but had no clue how to find it.. Learn about glaciology here! glaciology.
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    Glaciology is the study of glaciers , or more generally the study of ice and natural phenomena that involve ice. It is an interdisciplinary earth science that integrates geology climatology meteorology hydrology ... biology , and ecology . The presence of ice on Mars and Europa brings in an extraterrestrial component to the field. Areas of study within glaciology include glacial history and the reconstruction of past glaciation patterns, effects of glaciers on climate and vice versa, the dynamics of ice movement, the contributions of glaciers to erosion, lifeforms that live in the ice, and so forth. Unsurprisingly, glaciology is one of the key areas supported by polar research. There are two general categories of glaciation which glaciologists distinguish: alpine glaciation , accumulations or "rivers of ice" confined to valleys; and continental glaciation , unrestricted accumulations which once covered much of the northern continents. The word glacier is derived from the Latin glacies , meaning ice or frost.

    78. :: Ez2Find :: Glaciology
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    Glacier Ice is a comprehensive survey which is both well-written and extensively illustrated. It is easy to read, but mastery of its contents would take considerable time and effort. So it is suited to a broad range of audience. Even a beginner with an interest in the subject would be able to get a good deal out of this book. Because the writing is straightforward and assumes nothing about the reader's expertise. And because Glacier Ice contains many photographs which are specifically presen... more...
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    80. Fox Glacier Franz Josef Glacier New Zealand Glaciology
    The Fox and Franz Josef Glaciers cut through dramatic glacial valleys to flow into temperate rainforest. While many glaciers world
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    The Fox and Franz Josef Glaciers cut through dramatic glacial valleys to flow into temperate rainforest. While many glaciers world-wide have been retreating, these glaciers still flow almost to sea level, making them unique relics of the last Ice Age. South-Westland lies in the path of a band of wind known as the 'roaring forties'. The weather that flows on to the West Coast is forced to rise over the Southern Alps, thereby cooling and dropping most of its moisture as rain and snow. This process causes approximately 30 metres of snow to fall on the neve, or catchment area of the glacier every year. Snow that is compacted on the neve forms blue glacier ice that is funnelled down the valleys of the Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers. This flows under its own momentum, forming these 'rivers of ice' which are easily accessible from the Waiho (Franz Josef) and Cook (Fox) river beds. Although much melt occurs from the surface of the glaciers at lower elevations (the ablation zone), this high snowfall continues to push ice down the valleys at very high rates. This is aided by basal sliding, caused by a layer of water beneath the glaciers, formed by the weight of the ice pushing against the valley floor. Both of these factors cause the Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers to have flow rates that are up to 10 times faster than most valley glaciers. The glaciers flow over large bedrock steps on the valley floors. This causes the ice to extend and break up, forming steep icefalls that are mazes of crevasses and pinnacles of ice. Spectacular views of this dramatic landscape are gained from short valley walks to the Franz Josef and Fox Glacier terminal faces, or by taking a guided walk on to the ice. Either option will provide any visitor with a unique glacier experience.

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