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 …

Altimetry is probably one of the most powerful tools for ice sheet observation. Our vision of
the Antarctic ice sheet has been deeply transformed since the launch of the ERS1 satellite in …

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 …

Subglacial conditions of large polar ice sheets remain poorly understood, despite recent
advances in satellite observation. Major uncertainties related to basal conditions, such as …

Finding suitable potential sites for an undisturbed record of million-year old ice in Antarctica
requires slow-moving ice (preferably an ice divide) and basal conditions that are not …

Assessments of the Antarctic contribution to future sea level rise have generally focused on
ice loss in West Antarctica. This focus was motivated by glaciological and oceanographic …

We investigate the iceberg-calving cycle of the Amery Ice Shelf (AIS), East Antarctica, using
evidence acquired between 1936 and 2000. The most recent major iceberg-calving event …

By incorporating recently available remote sensing data, we investigated the mass balance
for all individual tributary glacial basins of the Lambert Glacier–Amery Ice Shelf system, East …

Surface melting and lakes are common to Antarctic ice shelves, and their existence and
drainages have been invoked as a precursor for ice shelf collapse. Here, we present …

The objective of this two-volume book is to survey one of the most challenging and at the
same time most necessary applications of satellite remote sensing: geophysical sciences in …