"Version: 20141101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Acknowledgements -- The authors -- The cryosphere -- Permafrost -- Snow -- Land ice -- Sea ice -- Recent changes in the cryosphere.Introduction to the Physics of the Cryosphere is intended for graduates with a numerical sciences …
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Observing the cryosphere -- 1.1. Components of the cryosphere -- 1.2. Importance of cryospheric knowledge -- 1.3. Techniques for observing changes -- 1.4. Deposition climate records -- 1.5. Climate tipping points and the high latitudes2. Basic physics -- 2.1. Thermodynamics of the cryosphere -- 2.2. Conservation equati…