Subject Code: ES6L113 Subject Name: Advanced Glaciology L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credit: 3
Pre-requisite:
Glaciers-formation and movement; Glacier mass balance; Ice core analyses; Glacier dynamics; Glacier hydrology; Temperature conditions in glaciers;  Remote sensing techniques in glaciology; Dynamic meteorology; Review of past changes in Earth's climate system with emphasis on the climate during the Quaternary period, Climate change causes; Techniques used to reconstruct paleoclimate records from ice cores.

Text/Reference Books:
  1. Bennett, Matthew M. and Glasser, Neil F., Glacial Geology: Ice Sheets and Landforms, Willey
  2. Jouzel, Jean, Lorius, Claude and Raynaud, Dominique, The White Planet: The Evolution and Future of Our Frozen World, Princeton University Press
  3. Douglas Benn and David J A Evans , Glaciers and Glaciation , Routledge