| 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
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10. Shallow Shelf Approximation (SSA)
11. Analytic problems & numerical modeling 12. The calving front |
| Transition zone | 13. Shallow Transition Zone Approximation |
Core literature
Lecture on land ice dynamics, R. Greve
Lecture on land ice dynamics, H. Gudmundsson
"Minimal Glacier Models", J. Oerlemans
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.
Links
"KlimaLounge", German weblog
"RealClimate", English weblog
"Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)"
"Millenium Ecosystem Report"
RealClimate.org