Glaciology: Climatology on thin ice

Modeling Ice Storm Climatology

Extreme weather events such as ice storms cause significant damage to life and property. Accurately forecasting ice storms sufficiently in advance to offset their impacts is very challenging because they are driven by atmospheric processes that are complex and not completely defined. Furthermore, such forecasting has to consider the influence of a changing climate on relevant atmospheric variab...

Skirting around thin ice

paths with someone who was clearly born in the wrong century — an avid knitter, a lutist, or someone who will actually sit down and write a letter. These anachronisms are harder to find in science, but they do exist. In fact, a small band of them revealed themselves during a research cruise this summer to the Arctic Ocean. You might not think to look for an 19th Century scientist on a bright re...

The surface climatology of the Ross Ice Shelf Antarctica

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Antarctic Automatic Weather Station (AWS) project has been making meteorological surface observations on the Ross Ice Shelf (RIS) for approximately 30 years. This network offers the most continuous set of routine measurements of surface meteorological variables in this region. The Ross Island area is excluded from this study. The surface climate of the RIS is...

Radar Systems for Glaciology

This chapter deals with radar systems, measurements and instrumentation employed to study the internal core and bedrock of ice sheets in glaciology . The Earth's ice sheets are in Greenland and Antarctica. They cover about 10% of the land surface of the planet. The total accumulated ice comprises 90% of the global fresh water reserve. These ice sheets, associated with the ocean environment, pro...

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