The year 1965 marked the beginning of the International Hydrological Decade. This project, covering the next tan years, has as its major conoern an assessment of the water resource of the earth. At present, it is estimated that some 21.4 million km.^3 of the world's water resouree is locked in ice or permanent snow. This represents approximately 9% of all fresh water on the earth or in the ataosphere. The estimates, of course, vary widely from author to author, but in any case the position of snow and ice in the fresh water balance of the globe is anything but negligible. Clearly the International Hydrological Decade must assess this quantity in some detail. To this end, many nations have undertaken the study of the mass budgets of selected glaciers and ice sheets vithin their boundaries. [...]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.47651 |
| Date | January 1966 |
| Creators | Bridge, Christopher William. |
| Contributors | Muller, F. (Supervisor), (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University, McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation, Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf, application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (), () |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated., All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 000814360, proquestno: AAIMK00544, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest., alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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