Glacier Hydrology and Hydrochemistry

Herausgeber: Sharp, M.; Tranter, M.; Richards, Keith S

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The last decade has been a period of rapid advances in glacier hydrology and hydrochemistry. These have resulted from the application of new technologies to the direct observation of englacial and subglacial drainage systems via boreholes, from theoretical advances and from increased interactions between fieldworkers and modellers. This collection of papers captures the spirit of these advances highlighting new methodologies, the change in character of hydrological models from lumped conceptual models to physically based, distributed models, and the changing role of field studies in glacier hydrological investigations. Major themes identified in the book are: approaches to defining the structure of drainage systems in cold and temperate glaciers; investigations of the linkages between surface and subsurface components of these systems, and of hydraulic interactions between different elements of subglacial systems; seasonal changes in drainage system properties at local and glacier wide scales; controls on meltwater quality; the integration of field and modelling studies; and problems of scaling up results from studies of valley glaciers to the ice sheet scale.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 297mm x 210mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 914g
• ISBN-13: 9780471981688
• ISBN-10: 0471981680
• Artikelnr.: 21979855

Autorenporträt

Zoe ¿Sharp opted out of mainstream education at the age of 12 and wrote her first novel at 15. She went through a variety of strange professions before becoming a photojournalist in 1988. It was after receiving death threats in the course of her work that she started writing the first of her award-winning crime thriller series featuring Special Forces dropout-turned-bodyguard, Charlotte 'Charlie' Fox, which has been optioned for film/TV. When not travelling, crewing yachts, riding motorcycles or improvising everyday objects for self-defence purposes, she can be found renovating houses or international pet-sitting. Find out more and sign up for her VIP list at www.ZoeSharp.com, follow her on Twitter, Instagram, or goodreads @AuthorZoeSharp, or Facebook @ZoeSharpAuthor.

Inhaltsangabe

Effect of Snow and Firn Hydrology on the Physical and Chemical
Characteristics of Glacial Runoff (A. Fountain).
Isotopic and Ionic Variations in Glacier River Water During Three
Contrasting Ablation Seasons (W. Theakstone N. Knudsen).
The Hydrochemistry of Runoff from a 'Cold Based' Glacier in the High Arctic
(Scott Turnerbreen, Svalbard) (R. Hodgkins, et al.).
Hydrochemistry as an Indicator of Subglacial Drainage System Structure: A
Comparison of Alpine and Sub-Polar Environments (M. Tranter, et al.).
Impact of Subglacial Geothermal Activity on Meltwater Quality in the
Jokulsa a Solheimasandi System, Southern Iceland (D. Lawler, et al.).
Velocity-Discharge Relationships Derived from Dye Tracer Experiments in
Glacial Meltwaters: Implications for Subglacial Flow Conditions (P. Nienow,
et al.).
Links Between Proglacial Stream Suspended Sediment Dynamics, Glacier
Hydrology and Glacier Motion at Midtdalsbreen, Norway (I. Willis, et al.).
Impact of Post-Mixing Chemical Reactions on the Major Ion Chemistry of Bulk
Meltwaters Draining the Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Valais, Switzerland (G.
Brown, et al.).
Experimental Investigations of the Weathering of Suspended Sediment by
Alpine Glacial Meltwater (G. Brown, et al.).
Statistical Evaluation of Glacier Boreholes as Indicators of Basal Drainage
Systems (C. Smart).
The Use of Borehole Video in Investigating the Hydrology of a Temperate
Glacier (L. Copland, et al.).
In Situ Measurements of Basal Water Quality and Pressure as an Indicator of
the Character of Subglacial Drainage Systems (D. Stone G. Clarke).
Variability in the Chemical Composition of In- Situ Subglacial Meltwaters
(M. Tranter, et al.).
Seasonal Reorganization of Subglacial Drainage Inferred from Measurements
in Boreholes (S. Gordon, et al.).
An Integrated Approach to Modelling Hydrology and Water Quality in
Glacierized Catchments (K. Richards, et al.).
Initial Results from a Distributed, Physically Based Model of Glacier
Hydrology (N. Arnold, et al.).
Towards a Hydrological Model for Computerized Ice-Sheet Simulations (R.
Alley).
Index.