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Glaciological data collected on the Juneau Icefield, Alaska. Focuses on GPS-derived surface velocity, surface elevations, and strain rates.
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The Crevasse Zone, GPS glacier surface movement and elevation surveys on the Juneau Icefield, Alaska Zone is dedicated to the dissemination of GPS glacier movement, surface elevation, and strain rate data collected on the Juneau Icefield near Juneau, Alaska. At this time, The Crevasse Zone requires the use of a web browser that supports frames....Long-term program to monitor climate, stream runoff, and the motion, mass balance, and geometry of glaciers at a few sites in Alaska and Washington State. Data are used to understand glacier-related hydrologic processes and improve prediction of water resources, glacier-related hazards, and the consequences of climate change.
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Benchmark Glaciers The data collected are used to understand glacier-related hydrologic processes and improve the quantitative prediction of water resources, glacier-related hazards, and the consequences of climate change (Fountain and others, 1997 The approach has been to establish long-term mass balance monitoring...Geophysical and glaciological research on the Antarctic continent with aerogeophysical measurements.
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Michael Studinger's Homepage Observatory focuses on the linkage between extensional tectonics and ice sheet dynamics on the Antarctic continent. The optimum approach to study processes linking ice sheet dynamics and geological structures is the analysis of integrated airborne geophysical data consisting of gravity,...World Data Center - Directory of European Glaciology
http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/wdcc/deg.htm
Links to U.S. National Parks featuring alpine glaciers, glacial landforms, and Ice Age flood landforms.
http://www2.nature.nps.gov/grd/tour/glaciers.htm
Climate research through ice core drillings (including logistics and instrumental development), analysis of chemical and physical parameters and modelling. Other topics: Studies of ice rheology and studies of extraterrestrial ice.
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Glaciology NBI København Universitet ...Links to glacier research and projects, glacier facts, questions and answers, a glossary, gallery, bibliography and links to glacier information on the Web.
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All About Glaciers They continue to flow and shape the landscape in many places today. All About Glaciers is a glacier site with something for everyone from glaciologists to grade school students, exploring nearly all aspects of glaciers including data and science, facts,...Research focus is on glaciology and glacial geology. Staff expertise and research areas include relation between glaciers and climate and interactions between glaciers and the marine environment.
http://www.aber.ac.uk/~glawww/
Source of information on glaciers and their fluctuations worldwide. World Glacier Inventory contains data on the spatial distribution of glaciers. Fluctuations of Glaciers and Mass Balance Bulletin document changes over time (changes in mass, volume, area and length of glaciers).
http://www.geo.unizh.ch/wgms/
A collection of photographs illustrating glaciation and its effects upon the earth's surface.
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Glacier Image Database The glacier system can be divided into six topics: Erosion, Subglacial, Superglacial, Ice-margin, Glacial lakes, and Proglacial. Within each topic, individual examples are organized into Process (orange; showing the process at work Deposit/Feature (yellow; examples of the resulting deposit or...Topics include introduction to glaciology; studies of ice sheet volume and glacier mass balance of glaciers by means of modelling, geophysical reconnaissance and field studies; and reconstruction of climate history from ice core analysis.
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AWI: Glaciology The cryosphere plays an important active and passive role in the climate system. On one hand the global ice and snow covered area varies on seasonal, interdecadal and millenial time scales modulating the radiation budget and hydrological cycle of the...Information, photos, and links on glaciers, glacial environments and glacial geomorphology. Also additional resources for users of the book "Glaciers".
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Glaciers: Peter G. Knight Information about glaciers for anyone who is interested! A Book For Beginners Glaciers and Glacial Landscapes Information about the book, and additional resources for readers A More Advanced Book Glaciers Information about the book, and additional resources for readers Information...US Geological Survey Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/factsheet/fs133-99//
Shockwave video demonstrates different types of glaciers, how they form and flow.
http://www.eoascientific.com/interactive/glaciers/glaciers.html
Research and reference information on ice-flow dynamics and calving, sub-glacial and englacial hydrology, permafrost, glaciers and sea-level change, climate change and glacier mass balance, heat exchange within snow packs, and related topics.
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INSTAAR Glaciology Group ...Describes research activities, the Tarfala Research Station, and glaciers the group has studied; lists group members; and provides photos, data, and publications.
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Stockholm Glaciology Upcoming glaciological meetings in 2005 Two new theses in Glaciology New glacier maps New Swedish glaciology book Ny glaciologibok p svenska Upcoming Scientific meetings: IAMAS General Assembly, Beijing, China, 2–11 Aug. 2005. Glacier mass balance and its coupling to atmospheric...Glacier and permafrost research in the Swiss Alps, Greenland Ice Sheet (Jakobshavn ice stream), and in Spitsbergen.
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ETH VAW Glacier And Permafrost Swiss glacier monitoring network Glacier Hazards Inventory of hazardous glaciers in Switzerland Live pictures from swiss glaciers Glacier Change Mass Balance Studies on Griesgletscher and Silvrettagletscher Swiss Glacier Monitoring Network Variations of Grosser Aletschgletscher Glacier Hydraulics Glacier Outburst Floods: A...Describes glaciological research of Antarctic ice sheets and ice streams by numerical modelling: focus on basal processes, including subglacial hydrology and till deformation. Also: field expeditions to Central Asian glaciers.
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Sang De Brabander's Homepage ...The goal of the Commission on Glaciation is to explore and develop scientific cooperation for the study of past glaciation and present glacier processes.
http://www.inqua.au.dk/