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Ice sheets. --- Glaciers. --- Glacial ice covers --- Ice covers, Glacial --- Ice mantles --- Mantles, Ice --- Sheets, Ice --- Glaciers --- Ice caps --- Ice shelves --- Cryosphere --- Ice --- Glaciology --- Meltwater

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This is the first textbook to address all the components of the Earth's cryosphere - all forms of snow and ice, both terrestrial and marine. It provides a concise but comprehensive summary of snow cover, glaciers, ice sheets, lake and river ice, permafrost, sea ice and icebergs - their past history and projected future state. It is designed for courses at upper undergraduate and graduate level in environmental science, geography, geology, glaciology, hydrology, water resource engineering and ocean sciences. It also provides a superb up-to-date summary for researchers of the cryosphere. The book includes an extensive bibliography, numerous figures and color plates, thematic boxes on selected topics and a glossary. The book builds on courses taught by the authors for many decades at the University of Colorado and the University of Alberta. Whilst there are many existing texts on individual components of the cryosphere, no other textbook covers the whole cryosphere.

Cryosphere --- Cold regions --- Glaciers --- Ice sheets --- History --- History. --- Glacial ice covers --- Ice covers, Glacial --- Ice mantles --- Mantles, Ice --- Sheets, Ice --- Ice caps --- Ice shelves --- Ice --- Glaciology --- Meltwater --- Chinosphere --- Earth (Planet) --- Cryosphere - History --- Cold regions - History --- Glaciers - History --- Ice sheets - History

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Explorations --- Oceanografie --- Océanographie --- Ontdekkingsreizen --- Ice sheets --- Région arctique --- Arctic region --- Glace --- ice --- Climatologie --- Climatology --- -551.324 --- Glacial ice covers --- Ice covers, Glacial --- Ice mantles --- Mantles, Ice --- Sheets, Ice --- Glaciers --- Ice caps --- Ice shelves --- Land ice. Glaciers --- 551.324 Land ice. Glaciers --- 551.324 --- Glace. Polaires (Régions). --- Ijs. Poolgebieden. --- Ice sheets - Polar regions --- Inlandsis --- Permafrost

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Ice sheets --- Oceanography --- Inlandsis --- Océanographie --- Congresses --- Congrès --- -Oceanography --- -Oceanography, Physical --- Oceanology --- Physical oceanography --- Thalassography --- Earth sciences --- Marine sciences --- Ocean --- Glacial ice covers --- Ice covers, Glacial --- Ice mantles --- Mantles, Ice --- Sheets, Ice --- Glaciers --- Ice caps --- Ice shelves --- -Congresses --- Océanographie --- Congrès --- Oceanography, Physical --- Congresses. --- Ice sheets - Antarctica - Congresses --- Oceanography - Antarctica - Congresses

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The cryosphere comprises all the frozen water and soil on the surface of the Earth. Mass Balance of the Cryosphere focuses on two key components of this environment: land ice (in the form of ice sheets, caps and glaciers) and sea ice. These components have been identified as important indicators of both short and long term climate change. Early chapters cover the theory behind field-based and satellite observations, and modelling of mass balance, providing a thorough grounding in all the concepts and issues presented later in the book. Later chapters review our current understanding of the present and predicted future mass balance of the cryosphere. This is an important reference for all scientists working in the fields of climate change, environmental sciences and glaciology. It is written by leading authors in the field, and is fully integrated to provide a coherent, cross-referenced and consistent exposition on the subject.

Ice sheets --- Mass budget (Geophysics) --- Inlandsis --- Bilan de masse (Géophysique) --- Observations --- Mathematical models --- Modèles mathématiques --- Observations. --- Mathematical models. --- Bilan de masse (Géophysique) --- Modèles mathématiques --- Balance, Mass (Geophysics) --- Budget, Mass (Geophysics) --- Glacier budget (Geophysics) --- Mass balance (Geophysics) --- Geomorphology --- Glaciology --- Mass transfer --- Glacial ice covers --- Ice covers, Glacial --- Ice mantles --- Mantles, Ice --- Sheets, Ice --- Glaciers --- Ice caps --- Ice shelves --- Ice sheets - Observations. --- Ice sheets - Mathematical models.