The Cryosphere

Course Details

  • Acronym ESS 505
  • Instructor(s) Knut Christianson
  • Quarter Autumn 2016
  • Credits 4
  • Meeting Times MWF 1:30 - 2:50
  • Location JHN 022
  • Prerequisites PHYS 121.

Course Description

Covers snow deposition and metamorphism, avalanches, heat and mass balance at snow and ice surfaces, glacier flow, ice sheets, sea ice, permafrost, methods of paleoclimate reconstruction, and Ice Age theories.