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Ice Sheets and Climate (Hardcover, 1984 ed.)
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Ice Sheets and Climate (Hardcover, 1984 ed.)
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Climate modelling is a field in rapid development, and the fltudy
of cryospheric processes has become an important part of it. On
smaller time scales, the effect of snow cover and sea ice on the
atmospheric circulation is of concern for long-range weather
forecasting. Thinking in decades or centuries, the effect of a C02
climatic warming on the present-day ice sheets, and the resulting
changes in global sea level, has drawn a lot of attention. In
particular, the dynamics of marine ice sheets (ice sheets on a bed
that would be below sea level after removal of ice and full
isostatic rebound) is a subject of continuous research. This
interest stems from the fact that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is a
marine ice sheet which, according to some workers, may be close to
a complete collapse. The Pleistocene ice ages, or glacial cycles,
are best characterized by total ice volume on earth, indicating
that on 4 5 large time scales (10 to 10 yr) ice sheets are a
dominant component of the climate system. The enormous amount of
paleoclimatic information obtained from deep-sea sediments in the
last few decades has led to a complete revival of iriterest in the
physical aspects of the Pleistocene climatic evolution.
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