Chamonix Glaciers

Reconstructing Climate from Glaciers

Glaciers offer the potential to reconstruct past climate over timescales from decades to millennia. They are found on nearly every continent, and at the Last Glacial Maximum, glaciers were larger in all regions on Earth. The physics of glacier-climate interaction are relatively well understood, and glacier models can be used to reconstruct past climate from geological evidence of past glacier e...

Seasonal waves on glaciers

Seasonal waves accompanying annual changes in the sliding velocity of ice travel down glacier at speeds much faster than the ice itself. A simple explanation for these waves in terms of the passage of a pressure wave through the subglacial drainage system is given. Drainage by both distributed and localized systems is explored, with the sliding velocity governed by a dependence on the effective...

Waves on glaciers

This paper is an attempt a t a mathematical synopsis of the theory of wave motions on glaciers. These comprise surface waves (analogous to water waves) and seasonal waves (more like compression waves). Surface waves have been often treated and are well understood, but seasonal waves, while observed, do not seem to have attracted any theoretical explanation. Additionally, the spectacular phenome...

Flow and Fluctuations of Glaciers

A sensor network for Glaciers

This paper reports on the design, implementation and results from GlacsWeb, an environmental sensor network for glaciers installed in Summer 2004 at Briksdalsbreen, Norway. The importance of power control, hardware architecture and communication systems are discussed and research issues highlighted.