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MEA 572 Glaciology
The course provides an overview of modern glaciers and ice sheets including the mechanisms responsible for their existence, motion and variations, and briefly addresses the paleoclimate information they contain. The course focuses on the processes related to glacial formation, ice flow dynamics, glacial mass balance, glacial thermodynamics, energy exchange at the ice surface, glacial hydrology, glacial chemistry, glacial geomorphology, glacier-climate interactions, and the response of these ice masses to climate change.
Typically offered in Spring only