This lecture is a 60-minute long video. This video covers an introduction to ice sheets, modelling ice sheet flow, thermodynamic drivers of ice sheet decay, and marine ice sheet instability.
YouTube Description:
"Mass loss from the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets is a key uncertainty for predictions of sea level change over the coming century. The evolution of large glacial ice sheets depends on a number of physical processes, including the mechanical deformation and flow of the ice, and thermodynamic forcing from the atmosphere and ocean. In this class I introduced the key physical controls on the mass budget of ice sheets, and how these processes can be described using continuum models of ice flow. I highlighted several outstanding research challenges along the way, and discuss marine ice sheet instability. We assumed some knowledge of introductory mechanics, differential equations and multivariable calculus as typically seen in the first year of a physics undergraduate degree. Other concepts involving thermodynamics and fluid mechanics will be introduced as needed during the lecture."