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In recent years climatologists have become more and more aware of the fact that the dynamics of Large continental ice sheets may be a very important factor in the evolution of climate. Apart form continental drift, ice sheets probably possess the largest time scale in the climate system. They effect the climatic regime through the well-known ice-albedo feedback koop as well as by dynamical processes (e.g. production of meltwater stabilizing the stratification in the oceans, forcing of planetary waves in the atmosphere).
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An introductory textbook on glaciology, dealing with both observational and modelling aspects, is: W.S.B. Paterson (1981), The Physics of Glaciers, Pergamon Press (second edition). As useful discussion on glacier modelling, in which a more fundamental treatment of ice-flow mechanics can be found, is: W.E. Budd and D. Jenssen (1975), “Numerical modelling of glacier systems”, in Proceedings of the Snow-and Ice Symposium Moscow 1971: IAHS-publ. 104, 257–291.
Experiments carried out by the author with the type of models described here can be found in: J. Oerlemans (1982), “A model of the Antarctic Ice Sheet”, Nature 297, 550–553; and “Glacial cycles and ice-sheer modelling”, in Climatic Change 4, 353–374.
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Oerlemans, J. (1983). ICE-Sheet Modelling for Climate Studies. In: Ghazi, A. (eds) Palaeoclimatic Research and Models. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7236-0_20
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