Reading material: Throstur's Lecture notes , and the book Physics of Glaciers (not required).

• Distribution of ice
• Mass balance
• Snow to ice transformation
• Heat budget (radiation)
• Milankovitch cycles and Climate
• Ice Cores
• Distribution of temperature in glaciers
• Flow features
• Glacier hydrology
• Jokulhlaup
• Deformation of ice
• Flow of ice
• Sliding, till deformation
• Response time and Time scales

Sincerely, Throstur
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Glaciology - southern Iceland

2011 Glaciology Field Trip

To Gígjökull, Sólheimajökull, Kvíárjökull, Skaftafellsjökull, Jökulsárlón and more.

Panorama from Skaftafellsjökull

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