Characterizing the cryosphere

History of the Martian Cryosphere: Is the Ice-cemented Portion of the Cryosphere Groundwater-supply-limited?

Unfrozen Groundwater in the Martian Cryosphere

Jepsen, G. Olhoeft, S. Painter, J. Priscu; Dept. of Space Studies, Southwest Research Institute, 1050 Walnut St. #400, Boulder CO 80302 ([email protected]); Dept. of Chemistry and Geochemistry, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO; Dept. of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT; Dept. of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO; Center for...

State of Balance of the Cryosphere

The current state of balance of the terrestrial ice sheets and glaciers is poorly known. What little data are available suggest that, worldwide, mountain glaciers have receded since about the mid-nineteenth century, with occasional interruptions of the retreat. The interior part of the Greenland ice sheet appears to be thickening or in near equilibrium, but this ice sheet may be thinning in the...

The Disappearing Cryosphere: Impacts and Ecosystem Responses to Rapid Cryosphere Loss

Author(s): Andrew G. Fountain, John L. Campbell, Edward A. G. Schuur, Sharon E. Stammerjohn, Mark W. Williams, Hugh W. Ducklow Reviewed work(s): Source: BioScience, Vol. 62, No. 4 (April 2012), pp. 405-415 Published by: University of California Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/bio.2012.62.4.11 . Accessed: 11/04/2012...

History of the Lunar Polar Cryosphere

Introduction: Since the discovery of ice in cold, permanently shadowed polar craters on Mercury[1], debate has reopened over the presence of ice in similar environments on the Moon. Though the Moon has similar shadowed craters currently, this has not always been the case. Here we examine a 4.5 billion year history of insolation in the lunar polar environment and the resulting surface and subsur...