Glacier Fluctuations and Climatic Change

Proceedings of the Symposium on Glacier Fluctuations and Climatic Change, held in Amsterdam, June 1-5, 1987

Episodic Palaeozoic Glaciation in the Cape-Karoo Basin, South Africa. - Quaternary Glaciations and Palaeoclimate of Mount Kenya, East Africa. - Tephrochronological Studies of Holocene Glacier Fluctuations in South Iceland. - Relationship of Land Terminating and Fjord Glaciers to Holocene Climatic Change, South Georgia, Antarctica. - Glacier Changes Following the Little Ice Age A Survey of the International Data Basis and Its Perspectives. - A Description of the United States Contribution to the World Glacier Inventory. - Historic Glacier Variations in Scandinavia. - The Decline of the Last Little Ice Age in High Asia Compared with That in the Alps. - Variations of Rio Plomo Glaciers, Andes Centrales Argentinos. - Effects of Topographic and Climatic Controls on 19th and 20th Century Glacier Changes in the Lyngen and Bergsfjord Areas, North Norway. - A Historical Perspective of the Nineteenth Century Ice Trade. - Mass Balance History of Blue Glacier, Washington, USA. - Mass Balance and Volume of South Cascade Glacier, Washington 1958 1985. - Field Stations for Glacier-Climate Research, West Greenland. - Calculation of Glacier Ablation from Air Temperature, West Greenland. - Hydrometeorological Conditions, Mass Balance and Runoff from Alpine Glaciers. - On the Blowing Snow in Adelie Land, Eastern Antarctica. - Altitudinal Shift of the Equilibrium Line in Greenland Calculated from Heat Balance Characteristics. - The Evolution of the Englacial Temperature Distribution in the Superimposed Ice Zone of a Polar Ice Cap During a Summer Season. - Energy Balance Calculations on and near Hintereisferner (Austria) and an Estimate of the Effect of Greenhouse Warming on Ablation. - Energy and Mass Balance Studies in the Firn Area of the Hintereisferner. - A Simple Method for Determining theResponse Time of Glaciers. - On the Response of Valley Glaciers to Climatic Change. - Numerical Modelling of Glacier D Argentiere and Its Historic Front Variations. - Historic Front Variations of the Rhone Glacier: Simulation with an Ice Flow Model. - The Response of the Equilibrium Line Altitude to Climate Fluctuations: Theory and Observations.