Details
| Course name | Mechanics of Glaciers and Ice Sheets |
| Module number | 13-E2-M008 |
| TUCaN course number |
13-E2-0014-vl (Lecture) 13-E2-0015-ue (Exercise) |
| Lecturer | Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Angelika Humbert |
| Language | English |
| Term | Winter |
| Credit points | 6 |
| Examination | Oral exam |
Contents
- Ice sheet, ice stream-glacier systems and their dynamics
- Structure of ice and constitutive relations
- Balance equations of ice sheets and glaciers, boundary conditions and approximations
- Processes in ice sheets: firn densification, sliding, calving and ice sheet hydrology
- Recent research topics in ice sheet dynamics and stability
Literature
- Cuffey Patterson, Physics of Glaciers, 2010
- Greve Blatter ‘Dynamics of Glaciers and Ice Sheets’ Monograph, Series Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics" (AGEM), Springer, 2007
Remarks
Group exercise
The exercise sessions are integrated into the lecture. Each session is scheduled individually to align with the lecture content and will be announced as early as possible.
