Anders Levermann's Teaching

Land ice dynamics (Lecture with exercises)

Content (in progress)

Introduction	1. Land ice and sea level rise
Minimal glacier models	2. Steady states 3. Time evolution
Dynamic equations	4. Mathematical background 5. Ice rheology and the constitutive relation 6. The Stokes Problem 7. Thermodynamics
Ice sheet dynamics	8. Shallow Ice Approximation (SIA) 9. Analytic problems
Ice shelf dynamics	10. Shallow Shelf Approximation (SSA) 11. Analytic problems & numerical modeling 12. The calving front
Transition zone	13. Shallow Transition Zone Approximation

Lab tasks:

Additional literature:
"Dynamics of Ice Sheets and Glaciers, R. Greve & H. Blatter.
"Large-scale glaciation on Earth and on Mars", R. Greve
"Fundamentals of glacier dynamics", C.J. van der Veen
"The physics of glaciers", W.S.B. Paterson
"Der Klimawandel", Stefan Rahmstorf und John Schellnhuber.

last update: September 2011