A short history of the thermomechanical theory and modelling of glaciers and ice sheets
Observations of glacier flow and explanations of its origin started as early as the 18th century. Several mechanisms were suggested before gravity-driven viscous flow became the accepted theory of glacier flow in the 1950s, the early years of the Journal of Glaciology. Since the viscosity of ice is...
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fthokunivhus:oai:eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp:2115/46879 2023-05-15T16:40:37+02:00 A short history of the thermomechanical theory and modelling of glaciers and ice sheets Blatter, Heinz Greve, Ralf Abe-Ouchi, Ayako http://hdl.handle.net/2115/46879 https://doi.org/10.3189/002214311796406059 eng eng International Glaciological Society http://www.igsoc.org/ http://hdl.handle.net/2115/46879 Journal of Glaciology, 56(200): 1087-1094 http://dx.doi.org/10.3189/002214311796406059 © 2010 International Glaciological Society 452 article fthokunivhus https://doi.org/10.3189/002214311796406059 2022-11-18T01:02:12Z Observations of glacier flow and explanations of its origin started as early as the 18th century. Several mechanisms were suggested before gravity-driven viscous flow became the accepted theory of glacier flow in the 1950s, the early years of the Journal of Glaciology. Since the viscosity of ice is strongly temperature-dependent, the topic of glacier and ice-sheet dynamics became essentially a fluid-dynamical problem. The availability of growing computing power turned the field of glacier mechanics and thermodynamics into a field of numerical modelling with increasing sophistication. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ice Sheet Journal of Glaciology Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers (HUSCAP) Journal of Glaciology 56 200 1087 1094 |
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Observations of glacier flow and explanations of its origin started as early as the 18th century. Several mechanisms were suggested before gravity-driven viscous flow became the accepted theory of glacier flow in the 1950s, the early years of the Journal of Glaciology. Since the viscosity of ice is strongly temperature-dependent, the topic of glacier and ice-sheet dynamics became essentially a fluid-dynamical problem. The availability of growing computing power turned the field of glacier mechanics and thermodynamics into a field of numerical modelling with increasing sophistication. |
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A short history of the thermomechanical theory and modelling of glaciers and ice sheets |
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A short history of the thermomechanical theory and modelling of glaciers and ice sheets |
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A short history of the thermomechanical theory and modelling of glaciers and ice sheets |
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A short history of the thermomechanical theory and modelling of glaciers and ice sheets |
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A short history of the thermomechanical theory and modelling of glaciers and ice sheets |
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short history of the thermomechanical theory and modelling of glaciers and ice sheets |
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Ice Sheet Journal of Glaciology |
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