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THE STRANGE, OVERAWING WORLD OF GLACIERS
One of the most impressive websites for the study of glaciationand glaciers, such as the Shackleton glaciers on the Ross Sea side in East Antarctica and, conversely, on the Antarctic Peninsula side of West Antarctica, is a Swiss website. A visit to Swisseduc.ch is highly recommended.
Visit the authoritative Swiss glacier website
With regard to the pictures below, all of which can be viewed in magnificent resolution at the site itself, the well-informed notes state "Discharge from the polar ice sheets is commonly via outlet glaciers. Here (see below, left), the upper Shackleton Glacier, one of the many large outlet glaciers from the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, flowing from left to lower right, together with its tributaries, leaves the Polar Plateau in Antarctica, cuts through the Transantarctic Mountains and will eventually drop down to sea level and from part of the Ross Ice Shelf" {visible at upper left in the right-hand picture).
The handsomely laid-out Swiss website also contains numerous other pictures which reveal the intense activity of glaciers in the Antarctic and other outlying regions, and in further flung areas including the Alps.
The pictures can be seen in high resolution at the website, copies can be purchased in high resolution if required, there is a useful glossary and the site is very easily navigable. The website can be read in either English or German.
A particularly valuable source of information on all matters to do with glaciers and glacial change effected by temperature adjustments is the National Snow and Ice Data Center. NSIDC is part of the University of Colorado Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, and is affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Geophysical Data Center. Their website well rewards a visit, and the links to other sitres are fascinating and invaluable.
Visit the NSIDC main site
The Cryosphere: evrything to dow with snow, ice, sea ice, blizzards, avalanches, polar climatology
Visit the NSIDC (US National Snow and Ice Data Center) for some fascinating extensive information and links regarding Glaciers
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