Review
"This is a somewhat technical book written for glaciologists that challenges a view that ice sheets have only a passive response to Quaternary climate changes. Instead, the author considers the proposition that Quaternary ice sheets interact with global climate. The book starts with a new paradigm for the ice age, discussing instability of ice sheets (especially Antarctica) and goes on to physics and dynamics of ice sheets followed by chapters on sheet, stream, and shelf flows. The last chapters present analyses of the last glaciation and the coming glaciation (using models and Milankovitch insolation cycles). Prior knowledge of calculus and glacial and fluid dynamics is assumed."--Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Review
"This is a somewhat technical book written for glaciologists that challenges a view that ice sheets have only a passive response to Quaternary climate changes. Instead, the author considers the proposition that Quaternary ice sheets interact with global climate. The book starts with a new paradigm for the ice age, discussing instability of ice sheets (especially Antarctica) and goes on to physics and dynamics of ice sheets followed by chapters on sheet, stream, and shelf flows. The last chapters present analyses of the last glaciation and the coming glaciation (using models and Milankovitch insolation cycles). Prior knowledge of calculus and glacial and fluid dynamics is assumed."--Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society