Subglacial lakes are repositories of ancient climate conditions, provide habitats for life and
modulate ice flow, basal hydrology, biogeochemical fluxes and geomorphic activity. In this …

The cycling of carbon on Earth exerts a fundamental influence upon the greenhouse gas
content of the atmosphere, and hence global climate over millennia. Until recently, ice …

This chapter assesses the state of physical, biological and social knowledge concerning the
Arctic and Antarctic ocean and cryosphere, how they are affected by climate change, and …

Abstract The Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) mission used laser altimetry
measurements to determine changes in elevations of glaciers and ice sheets, as well as sea …

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 …

Subglacial meltwater draining along the bed of fast-flowing, marine-terminating glaciers
emerges at the grounding line, where the ice either goes afloat to form an ice shelf or …

Liquid water has been known to occur beneath the Antarctic ice sheet for more than 40
years, but only recently have these subglacial aqueous environments been recognized as …

Satellite and aircraft observations have revealed that remarkable changes in the Earth's
polar ice cover have occurred in the last decade. The impacts of these changes, which …

The last decade witnessed an explosion in yearly number of publications on passive glacier
seismology. The seismic signals from a wide range of glacier‐related processes fill a broad …

To understand how planet Earth works we study it increasingly as a system–a collection of
interdependent parts or spheres–the lithosphere, the hydrosphere, the cryosphere, the …