Glaciers and Glaciation is the classic textbook for all students of glaciation. Stimulating and
accessible, it has established a reputation as a comprehensive and essential resource. In …

Mountain glaciers are key indicators of climate change, although the climatic variables
involved differ regionally and temporally. Nevertheless, there has been substantial glacier …

With the increasing use of digital elevation models in palaeo-glacier reconstructions and the
availability of freeware spreadsheets the Area-Altitude Balance Ratio (AABR) and Balance …

The mass-balance characteristics of glaciers in high-mountain environments complicate the
relationship between glacier equilibrium-line altitudes (ELAs) and climatic variables such as …

Ice volumes are known for only a few of the roughly 160,000 glaciers worldwide but are
important components of many climate and sea level studies which require water flux …

Records of glacier fluctuations compiled by the World Glacier Monitoring Service can be
used to derive an independent estimate of global warming during the last 100 years …

The interaction between tectonism and erosion produces rugged landscapes in actively
deforming regions. In the northwestern Himalaya, the form of the landscape was found to be …

Since the mid-1980s, glaciers in the European Alps have shown widespread and
accelerating mass losses. This article presents glacier-specific changes in surface elevation …

Field Techniques in Glaciology and Glacial Geomorphology is the first text to provide this
essential information in a single comprehensive volume. Coverage includes: The role of …

A toolbox for the automated calculation of glacier equilibrium-line altitudes (ELAs) using the
Accumulation Area Ratio, Area-Altitude Balance Ratio, Area-Altitude and Kurowski methods …