THE ENERGY OF GLACIATION AND THE LIFE OF GLACIERS

Contents: The energy of glaciation; The intensity of the processes of accumulation and ablation at the snow line; The geological activity of glaciers; The snow line; The relation between the energy of glaciation and the altitude of the snow line; The energy of glaciation and the fluctuation of glaci...

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Main Author: Shumskii,P. A.
Other Authors: SNOW ICE AND PERMAFROST RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT WILMETTE ILL
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1950
Subjects:
Snow
Ice and Permafrost
(*GLACIERS
ENERGY)
ABLATION
INTENSITY
CLASSIFICATION
ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATION
PERIODIC VARIATIONS
COLD WEATHER TESTS
POLAR REGIONS
CLIMATE
WATER VAPOR
TROPOSPHERE
MOTION
EQUILIBRIUM(PHYSIOLOGY)
WIND
CONVECTION(HEAT TRANSFER)
THERMAL RADIATION
TEMPERATURE
USSR
Ice
permafrost
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Summary:Contents: The energy of glaciation; The intensity of the processes of accumulation and ablation at the snow line; The geological activity of glaciers; The snow line; The relation between the energy of glaciation and the altitude of the snow line; The energy of glaciation and the fluctuation of glaciers; Meteorological factors of accumulation and ablation; The climatic nature of glaciation; The consequences of a general cooling of climate and the problem of the metachronicity of glaciers; The Simpson hypothesis; The genetic classification of glaciers. (Author) Trans. of Energiya Oledeneniya i Zhizn Lednikov, Moscow, 1947 60p.

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