Glacial Isostatic Adjustment

Theory for a Spherically Symmetric Earth and Numerical Results

Giorgio Spada, Daniele Melini (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

XIX, 393 Seiten

2025
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-90537-7 (ISBN)

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This book aims at presenting a synthetic but self-contained theory of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA), firmly grounded on physics and mathematics. However, at the same time, it also describes various phenomenological aspects, making it appealing also to a broad audience of Earth scientists not having a technical background. The interest on GIA is motivated by the entangled processes involved, reflecting interactions between the solid Earth, the oceans, and the cryosphere. In the context of climate change, GIA has a special role. For example, ground or space-based geodetic methods aimed at observing the mass balance variations of the contemporary ice sheets require a GIA correction before they can be suitably interpreted. For these reasons, GIA modeling has seen a considerable development recently, with a growing attention by a broad audience of scientists in the fields of geophysics, geology, geodesy, and Earth system science.

1.Gravity, rheology and mass distributions.- 2.Love numbers and Green s functions.- 3.The Earth s response to surface loads.- 4.Rotational response of the Earth.- 5.The Sea Level Equation.- 6.Solving the Sea Level Equation.

Erscheinungsdatum	30.07.2025
Reihe/Serie	Springer Geophysics
Zusatzinfo	XIX, 393 p. 74 illus., 58 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Analysis
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geophysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie
Schlagworte	Earth rotation • Green's Function • rheology • Sea Level Equation • Spherical harmonic functions
ISBN-10	3-031-90537-7 / 3031905377
ISBN-13	978-3-031-90537-7 / 9783031905377
Zustand	Neuware