Ice Physics and the Natural Environment

Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Introduction....Pages 1-9
History of the Search for a Theory of Melting....Pages 11-21
Nucleation and Surface Melting of Ice....Pages 23-38
Crystal Growth, Surface Phase Transitions and Thermomolecular Pressure....Pages 39-67
Some Aspects of the Physics of Glaciers....Pages 69-88
Stable Isotope Records from Greenland Deep Ice Cores: The Climate Signal and the Role of Diffusion....Pages 89-107
Present and Past Glaciations: A Geological Perspective....Pages 109-119
Ice in the Troposphere....Pages 121-142
Physico-Chemistry of Polar Stratospheric Clouds....Pages 143-167
A Minimal Model of Sea Ice and Climate....Pages 169-183
Forecasting Ice on Lakes, Estuaries and Shelf Seas....Pages 185-207
On Productivity in Ice-Covered Polar Oceans....Pages 209-218
The Freezing of Soils: Ice in a Porous Medium and Its Environmental Significance....Pages 219-239
Ground Freezing Technology For Environmental Remediation....Pages 241-251
Nuclear Contamination and Environmental Damage From Oil Spills in Polar Regions of FSU....Pages 253-271
Lecture Notes on Water in Ice: Microscopic and Geophysical Scales....Pages 273-279
Local Ice Deformation Under the Influence of Natural Forces. Field Observations and Analyses of Cyclic Oscillations....Pages 281-284
Corrugations of the Sea-Ice-Ocean Interface Caused By Ocean Shear....Pages 285-287
Climatic Changes in the Mountain Glacier Area of Pamir....Pages 289-294
Geometric Selection in Ice Polycrystals: Concavity, Faceting, and Kinetics....Pages 295-297
Snowpack Accumulation Trends in California....Pages 299-304
Neutron Spectroscopy of Vapour Deposited Amorphous Ice....Pages 305-307
Comet 46P/Wirtanen: The Influence of Grain Sintering on the Evolution Layer....Pages 309-313
Water Ice as the Main Component of Icy Satellites....Pages 315-320
Surface Melting of Ice and Thunderstorm Electrification....Pages 321-324
A Mathematical Model of Wide Subglacial Water Drainage channels....Pages 325-327
High Uptake Efficiency and Conductivity of Polycrystalline Ice: Implication to UT/LS Clouds and Contrails....Pages 329-334
Methane Bubble Inclusions in Ice on High Latitude Lakes....Pages 335-339
Modelling Sea Ice Roughness in the Arctic....Pages 341-345
Dynamical Calculations for the Proton Ordered Ice II Structure....Pages 347-349
Back Matter....Pages 351-360