This course covers the fundamentals of glacier and ice-sheet dynamics and their application to problems in sea level, paleoclimate, and planetary science. Course content includes glacier mass balance, the material properties and rheology of ice, the basic equations of ice-sheet and -shelf flow, basal processes, the stability and history of ice sheets. This course is targeted at graduate students in climate, geophysics and planetary sciences, but is also appropriate for any undergraduate with sufficient interest and prerequisite understanding of undergraduate-level mathematics and Earth sciences.
Course Number
EAS4403/8803
Hours - Total
3.00
Hours - Lecture
3.00
Research Topics