Calving glaciers
Subtitle: report of a workshop, February 28-March 2, 1997
By: by C.J. van der Veen.
Contributors: Veen, C. J. van der 1956-
Series: Report / Byrd Polar Research Center -- no. 15.; Report (Byrd Polar Research Center) -- no. 15.
Publisher: Byrd Polar Research Center
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Glaciers.; Icebergs.; Hydrometeorology -- Periodicity.; Hydrologic cycles.; Glacial climates -- Environemntal aspects.; Mass budget (Geophysics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Water, sediment and tidewater glaciers: simplistic review and weakly constrained speculations -- R B Alley; value: Tidal forcing of basal seismicity of ice stream C, West Antarctica, observed far inland -- S Anandakrishnan and R B Alley; value: Late Holocene advance and retreat of tidewater glaciers in Yakutat Bay and Icy Bay, Gulf of Alaska -- D Barclay ... [et al.]; value: Le Conte Clacier, Alaska: surface elevation changes and calving retreat -- K Echelmeyer and R Motyka; value: Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) observations of calving glaciers -- R R Forster -- The; value: relationship between calving rates, ice velocities and water depths -- T J Hughes and J L Fastook; value: Tidewater terminus dynamics in Glacier Bay, Alaska -- L E Hunter; value: Hans Glacier - a tidewater glacier in Southern Spitsbergen: summary of some results -- J Jania and M Kaczmarska; value: Documentation of the retreat of Columbia Glacier, Alaska -- R M Krimmel -- The; value: iceberg discharge process: observations and inferences drawn from the study of Columbia Glacier-- M F Meier; value: Deep-water calving at Le Conte Glacier, Southeast Alaska -- R J Motyka; value: Taku Glacier, Alaska: advance and growth of a tidewater glacier -- R J Motyka; value: Passive and active iceberg producing glaciers -- A Post; value: Seasonal variations in terminus position of Jakobshavn Glacier, West Greenland -- H-G Sohn, K C Jezek and C J van der Veen; value: Using low-altitude meteorological observations to calculate the mass balance of Alaska's Columbia Glacier and relate it to calving speed -- W Tangborn; value: Controls on the position of iceberg-calving fronts -- C J van der Veen; value: Backstress: what it is and how it affects glacier flow -- C J van der Veen; value: Evidence for bottom crevasse formation on Columbia Glacier, Alaska, U.S.A. -- E R Venteris; value: Backstress on Columbia Glacier-- I M Whillans and E R Venteris.