707711 The Cryosphere in the Climate System
summer semester 2018 | Last update: 29.05.2018 | Place course on memo listUnderstanding the basic mechanisms of glaciers and their role in the climate system.
What is a glacier? Definitions in the context of glaciers.
Where are glaciers?
How do they change? The mass balance and the flow dynamics.
Why do we study glaciers? Glaciers in a wider context.
Which tools are required to meet research questions? Variables, observations, reconstructions, models.
Which processes govern glaciers and their changes? The process understanding.
Glaciers in the climate system. In view of the ongoing climate change.
Examples of recent studies and papers in our Innsbruck working group.
Lecture and discussion, computer exercises with observation datasets and models.
oral + computer projects
Cuffey KM & Paterson WSB (2011) The Physics of Glaciers. (Elsevier, Amsterdam, Boston, Heidelberg, London, New York, Oxford, Paris, San Diego, San Francisco, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo).
As a supplementary literature in addition to scientific papers which will be presented during the lecture.
- Faculty of Geo- and Atmospheric Sciences
- Master's Programme Geography: Global Change - Regional Sustainability according to the curriculum 2007 (120 ECTS-Credits, 4 semesters)
- Master's Programme Atmosphere Sciences according to the curriculum 2007 (120 ECTS-Credits, 4 semesters)
- Master's Programme Atmosphere Sciences according to the curriculum 2015 (120 ECTS-Credits, 4 Semesters)
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Wed 2018-03-07
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Tue 2018-03-13
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