Technical Report

Technical Report
Author: Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (U.S.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 502
Release: 1977
Genre: Frozen ground
ISBN:

Arctic Ice Shelves and Ice Islands

Arctic Ice Shelves and Ice Islands
Author: Luke Copland
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2017-05-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9402411011

This book provides an overview of the current state of knowledge of Arctic ice shelves, ice islands and related features. Ice shelves are permanent areas of ice which float on the ocean surface while attached to the coast, and typically occur in very cold environments where perennial sea ice builds up to great thickness, and/or where glaciers flow off the land and are preserved on the ocean surface. These landscape features are relatively poorly studied in the Arctic, yet they are potentially highly sensitive indicators of climate change because they respond to changes in atmospheric, oceanic and glaciological conditions. Recent fracturing and breakup events of ice shelves in the Canadian High Arctic have attracted significant scientific and public attention, and produced large ice islands which may pose a risk to Arctic shipping and offshore infrastructure. Much has been published about Antarctic ice shelves, but to date there has not been a dedicated book about Arctic ice shelves or ice islands. This book fills that gap.

Ice Mechanics for Geophysical and Civil Engineering Applications

Ice Mechanics for Geophysical and Civil Engineering Applications
Author: Ryszard Staroszczyk
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2018-12-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030030385

This book presents the concepts and tools of ice mechanics, together with examples of their application in the fields of glaciology, climate research and civil engineering in cold regions. It starts with an account of the most important physical properties of sea and polar ice treated as an anisotropic polycrystalline material, and reviews relevant field observations and experimental measurements. The book focuses on theoretical descriptions of the material behaviour of ice in different stress, deformation and deformation-rate regimes on spatial scales ranging from single ice crystals, those typical in civil engineering applications, up to scales of thousands of kilometres, characteristic of large, grounded polar ice caps in Antarctica and Greenland. In addition, it offers a range of numerical formulations based on either discrete (finite-element, finite-difference and smoothed particle hydrodynamics) methods or asymptotic expansion methods, which have been used by geophysicists, theoretical glaciologists and civil engineers to simulate the behaviour of ice in a number of problems of importance to glaciology and civil engineering, and discusses the results of these simulations. The book is intended for scientists, engineers and graduate students interested in mathematical and numerical modelling of a wide variety of geophysical and civil engineering problems involving natural ice.

Proceedings of a Synthesis Meeting

Proceedings of a Synthesis Meeting
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1981
Genre: Beaufort Sea
ISBN:

Relates to U.S. Dept. of the Interior's proposed sale 71, the second major Beaufort Sea lease sale. Sale 71 area located on Alaskan arctic coast. Two sections: characterization of Sale 71 environments, and interdisciplinary process analyses, impact predictions, and issue discussions.

The Geophysics of Sea Ice

The Geophysics of Sea Ice
Author: Norbert Untersteiner
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 1197
Release: 2013-12-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1489953523

Based on the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Air-Sea-Ice Interaction held September 28-October 10, 1981 in Acquafredda di maratea, Italy. Intent is to present the topic of sea ice in the broad and interdisciplinary context of atmospheric and oceanographic science.