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  • Knight, P.G., 2006. Glacier Science and Environmental Change. Blackwell Publishing, 527 pages.
  • Nesje, A. and Dahl, S.O., 2000. Glaciers and Environmental Change. Arnold, 203 pages.
  • Oerlemans J. (Editor), 1989. Glacier Fluctuations and Climatic Change. Kluwer (Dordrecht), 417 pages.
  • Rees, W.G., 2006. Remote Sensing of Snow and Ice, Taylor and Francis, 285 pages.

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  • Bahr, D.B., Meier, M.F. and S.D. Peckham. 1997. The physical basis of glacier volume-area scaling. J. Geophysical Res., 102, B9, 20355 – 20362.
  • Boyce, E.S., R.J. Motyka, and M. Truffer. 2007. Flotation and Retreat of a Lake-Calving Terminus, Mendenhall Glacier, Southeast Alaska. J. Glaciology, 53(181), 211-224. (PDF| 768Kb)
  • Brown, C.S., M.F. Meier, and A. Post. 1982. Calving speed of Alaska tidewater glaciers with application to Columbia Glacier. U.S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper, 1258-C.
  • Haeberli, W., P. Muller, J. Alean and H. Bosch, 1989. Glacier changes following the Little Ice Age - a survey of the international data basis and its perspectives, in: Oerlemans, J., ed., Glacier Fluctuations and Climatic Change. Kluwer (Dordrecht), 77-101.
  • Meier, M.F., and A. Post. 1987. Fast tidewater glaciers. J. Geophysical Res., 92, 9051 – 9058.
  • Motyka, R.J., S. O’Neel, C.L. Connor and K.E. Echelmeyer. 2002. Twentieth century thinning of Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska, and its relationship to climate, lake calving, and glacier run-off. Global and Planetary Change, 35, 93 – 112. (PDF|4683Kb)
  • Oerlemans, J., 1994. Quantifying global warming from the retreat of glaciers. Science, 264, 243-245
  • Van der Veen, C.J. 1996. Tidewater calving. J. Glaciology, 42, 375 – 385.
  • Warren, C., D. Benn, V. Winchester and S. Harrison. 2001. Buoyancy-driven lacustrine calving, Glaciar Nef, Chilean Patagonia. J. Glaciology, 47, 135 – 146.
  • Williams, R.S. Jr., D.K. Hall, O. Sigurdsson, and J.Y.L. Chien. 1997. Comparison of satellite-derived with ground-based measurements of the fluctuations of the margins of Vatnajokull, Iceland, 1973-92. Annals of Glaciology, 24, 72 – 80.
  • Williams, R.S. Jr and J.K. Ferrigno, eds. 1988. Satellite image atlas of glaciers of the world. A. Introduction. U.S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper, 1386-A.
  • Williams, R.S. Jr and J.K. Ferrigno. 2005. Satellite image atlas of glaciers of the world. U.S. Geol. Surv. Fact Sheet, 2005-3056.

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