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Dynamics of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet :

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Dynamics of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet :

[Book]

Proceedings of a Workshop held in Utrecht, May 6-8, 1985

edited by C.J. Veen, J. Oerlemans.

Dordrecht

Springer Netherlands

1987

(384 pages)

Glaciology and Quaternary geology, 4.

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet: the need to understand its dynamics.- Force budget of ice sheets.- On the oceanic circulation near a shelf-ice edge.- Quantitative estimates of the mass flux and ice movement along the ice edges in the eastern and southern Weddell Sea.- Some aspects of the flow of the Ronne Ice Shelf.- Unconfined ice-shelf flow.- Plane and radial ice-shelf flow with prescribed temperature profile.- Ice-shelf backpressure: form drag versus dynamic drag.- Ice stream-ice shelf interaction in West Antarctica.- A few preliminary results from the glaciogeophysical survey of the interior Ross Embayment (GSIRE).- On the flow within the transition zone between ice sheet and ice shelf.- The finite-element method applied to a time-dependent flowband model.- Longitudinal stresses and basal sliding: a comparative study.- A subglacial aquifer bed model and water pressure dependent basal sliding relationship for a West Antarctic ice stream.- The heat budget of the Ross drainage basin.- Numerical modelling of the large-scale basal water flux under the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.- Modelling the response of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to a climatic warming.- Geographic index.

Proceedings of a Workshop held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, May 6-8, 1985

Ice sheets -- Antarctica -- Congresses.

Ice sheets.

Oceanography -- Antarctica -- Congresses.

edited by C.J. Veen, J. Oerlemans.

C J Veen

J Oerlemans

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