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Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters
1st Edition - October 23, 2014
Language: English
Hardback ISBN:9780123948496
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Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides you with the latest scientific developments in glacier surges and melting, ice shelf collapses, paleo-climate reconstruction, sea level rise, climate change implications, causality, impacts, preparedness, and mitigation. It takes a geo-scientific approach to the topic while also covering current thinking about directly related social scientific issues that can adversely affect ecosystems and global economies.
Puts the contributions from expert oceanographers, geologists, geophysicists, environmental scientists, and climatologists selected by a world-renowned editorial board in your hands
Presents the latest research on causality, glacial surges, ice-shelf collapses, sea level rise, climate change implications, and more
Numerous tables, maps, diagrams, illustrations and photographs of hazardous processes will be included
Features new insights into the implications of climate change on increased melting, collapsing, flooding, methane emissions, and sea level rise
Geoscientists, including glaciologists, climatologists, oceanographers, environmental scientists, geologists, geophysicists geomorphologists, atmospheric scientists, and seismologists.
Editorial Foreword
Foreword by Charles Harris
Preface
Chapter 1. Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters: A General Framework
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Costs and Benefits: Living with Snow and Ice
1.3. Small and Large, Fast and Slow, Local to Global: Dealing with Constraints
1.4. Beyond Historical Experience: Monitoring and Managing Rapid changes
Chapter 2. Physical, Thermal, and Mechanical Properties of Snow, Ice, and Permafrost
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Density and Structure
2.3. Thermal Properties
2.4. Mechanical Properties
2.5. Ductile Behavior
2.6. Dynamic and Electromagnetic Properties
2.7. Summary
Chapter 3. Snow and Ice in the Climate System
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Physical Extent of the Cryosphere
3.3. Climatic Conditions of the Cryosphere
Chapter 4. Snow and Ice in the Hydrosphere
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Snow Accumulation and Melt
4.3. Glaciers and Glacial Mass Balance
4.4. Hydrology of Snow- and Ice-Covered Catchments
4.5. Concluding Remarks
Chapter 5. Snow, Ice, and the Biosphere
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Snow and Ice as Habitats
5.3. Snow and Ice as Moderators of Habitat
5.4. Effects of Vegetation on Snow
5.5. Conclusions and Perspectives
Chapter 6. Ice and Snow as Land-Forming Agents
6.1. Glacial Processes and Landscapes
6.2. Periglacial and Permafrost Processes and Landforms
6.3. The Role of Snow in Forming Landscapes
6.4. Conclusions and Outlook
Chapter 7. Mountains, Lowlands, and Coasts: the Physiography of Cold Landscapes
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Physiography of the Terrestrial Cryosphere
7.3. Glaciers and Ice Sheets: Extent and Distribution
7.4. Permafrost Types, Extent, and Distribution
7.5. Glacier–Permafrost Interactions
Chapter 8. Integrated Approaches to Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction in Dynamic Socio-cryospheric Systems
8.1. Introduction
8.2. Integrated Adaptation in Dynamic Socio-cryospheric Systems
8.3. Glacier and Glacial Lake Hazards
8.4. Volcano–Ice Hazards
8.5. Glacier Runoff, Hydrologic Variability, and Water-Use Hazards
8.6. Coastal Resources and Hazards
8.7. Discussion and Conclusions
Chapter 9. Integrative Risk Management: The Example of Snow Avalanches
9.1. Introduction
9.2. Risk Analysis
9.3. Risk Evaluation
9.4. Mitigation of Risk
9.5. Methods and Tools for Risk Assessment and Evaluation of Mitigation Measures
9.6. Case Study “Evaluation of Avalanche Mitigation Measures for Juneau, Alaska”
9.7. Final Remarks
Chapter 10. Permafrost Degradation
10.1. Introduction
10.2. Permafrost and Recent Climate Change
10.3. Permafrost Observations and Data
10.4. Drivers of Permafrost and Active Layer Change across Space and Time
10.5. Observed Permafrost and Active-Layer Changes
10.6. Permafrost Modeling and Forecast
10.7. Permafrost and Infrastructure
10.8. Coastal Erosion and Permafrost
10.9. Permafrost and the Carbon Cycle in the Context of Climate Change
10.10. Summary
Chapter 11. Radioactive Waste Under Conditions of Future Ice Ages
11.1. Introduction
11.2. Timing of Future Glacial Inception
11.3. Deep Glacial Erosion in the Alpine Foreland of Northern Switzerland
11.4. Tunnel Valleys within the North German Plain and Their Relevance to the Long-term Safety of Nuclear Waste Repositories
11.5. Paleohydrogeology and Glacial Systems Modeling—Canadian Perspective
11.6. Impact of Glacial and Periglacial Climate Conditions on Groundwater Flow and Transport—Examples from a Safety Assessment of a Geological Repository for Spent Fuel in Fractured Crystalline Rock, Sweden
Chapter 12. Snow Avalanches
12.1. Introduction
12.2. The Avalanche Phenomenon
12.3. Avalanche Release
12.4. Avalanche Flow
12.5. Avalanche Mitigation
12.6. Avalanche Forecasting
12.7. Concluding Remarks
Chapter 13. Glacier Surges
13.1. Introduction
13.2. Properties and Causes of Glacier Surges
13.3. Medvezhiy and Geographical Society Glaciers, Central Pamirs, Tajikistan
13.4. Surges of Glaciar Grande Del Nevado Del Plomo, Central Andes, Argentina, and Related Disasters/Hazards
13.5. A Surge-Like Flow Instability of Belvedere Glacier, Italian Alps, and Associated Hazards 2001–2003
13.6. Surging Glaciers and the Trans Alaska Pipeline System: Potential Hazards and Monitoring
Chapter 14. Glacier-Related Outburst Floods
14.1. Introduction
14.2. Flood Sources
14.3. Failure Mechanisms and Flood Magnitude
14.4. Downstream Flood Behavior
14.5. Outburst Floods and Climate Change
14.6. Risk Assessment and Reduction
14.7. Summary
Chapter 15. Ice Loss and Slope Stability in High-Mountain Regions
15.1. Introduction
15.2. Mechanisms of Cryosphere Control on Slope Stability
15.3. Case Studies
15.4. Conclusion and Outlook
Chapter 16. Catastrophic Mass Flows in the Mountain Glacial Environment
16.1. Introduction
16.2. Catastrophic mass flows in the Mountain Glacial Environment—General Characteristics
16.3. Mass Flows Involving Mainly Glacier Ice (Glacier Avalanches and Large-Scale Glacier Detachments)
16.4. Mass Flows Involving Mainly Fragmented Rock (Rock Avalanches)
16.5. Mass Flows Involving a Mixture of Glacier Ice and Rock (Ice–Rock Avalanches and Flows)
16.6. Glacial debris Flows I; Non-outburst Related
16.7. Glacial Debris Flows II; Lake Outburst-Related Flows
16.8. Catastrophic Mass Flows in the Mountain Glacial Environment: Discussion
16.9. Conclusions
Chapter 17. Hazards at Ice-Clad Volcanoes: Phenomena, Processes, and Examples From Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, and Chile
17.1. Introduction
17.2. Volcano–Ice Interactions
17.3. Volcano–Ice Interactions as Disaster Generators: Mount St Helens and Nevado del Ruiz
17.4. Volcano–Ice Interactions in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, and Chile: Dealing with Related Hazards
17.5. Specific Aspects of Hazard/Risk Assessment at Ice-Clad Volcanoes
Chapter 18. Floating Ice and Ice Pressure Challenge to Ships
18.1. Introduction
18.2. Ice Ridges
18.3. Pressure Build-Up and Dissipation
18.4. Regional Conditions and Incidents of Besetting
18.5. Pressured Ice on the Great Lakes
18.6. Freshwater Ice
18.7. Causes of Ice under Pressure in the Great Lakes
18.8. Environmental Concerns
18.9. Shipping Concerns
18.10. Dealing with Pressured Ice: a Ship Master's Perspective
18.11. Conclusion and Perspective for the Future
Chapter 19. Retreat Instability of Tidewater Glaciers and Marine Ice Sheets
19.1. Introduction
19.2. Tidewater Retreat Instability and Calving
19.3. Triggering and Forcing Mechanisms
19.4. Marine Ice Sheets and Ice Shelves
19.5. Wider Implications as Hazards
Chapter 20. Ice Sheets, Glaciers, and Sea Level
20.1. Contemporary Sea-Level Rise in a Geologic Perspective
20.2. Recent Glacier and Ice Sheet Contribution to Sea-Level Rise
20.3. Future Glacier and Ice Sheet Contribution to Sea-Level Rise
20.4. Implications of Sea-Level Rise
20.5. Concluding Remarks
Index
No. of pages: 812
Language: English
Edition: 1
Published: October 23, 2014
Imprint: Academic Press
Hardback ISBN: 9780123948496
eBook ISBN: 9780123964731
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