Some ideas for additional chapters

[benhills]

I read through your book! I love it, such a cool idea.

I probably won't contribute quickly, but I would love to claim some material which I can sit on for a while and think about how best to write.

Here are some chapters which I think could be useful:

• Individual crystal structure and behavior (dislocation creep, etc.)
• Formation of ice (firn compaction, etc.)
• Basal properties
• Elastic behavior (cracks and crevasses)
• Ice cores
  I wouldn't even feel comfortable writing all these sections, but trying to gauge your vision on some of this.

I think that the radar sections have potential to be a present-day form of the radioglaciology textbook. I wonder if starting with some general radar theory is useful? Radar power equation and stuff like that.

Maybe @glugeorge or @Elizabethcase are already working on some of this? I really don't want to crowd anyone out, or to make any promises really (I will probably be quite slow to contribute). Still, I think it is a fun idea for a community project.

• Ben

[jkingslake]

This all sounds fantastic! I would love to see chapters on any/all of these topics.

We havent got any firm plans on these ideas yet. We should work out ways for multiple people to contribute though.

A couple of areas I would like to contribute:

• I could contribute to the ice cores chapter through the age equation (here's a notebook I wrote for a course last year).

• And the firn compaction modelling (here is s notebook solving a firn model we published last year).

Yes, some fundamental radar theory would be great.

[Elizabethcase]

Hey Ben! Sorry for the delay on my end. I've got some brief notes on ice crystals as they relate to ice fabric & birefringence in #21 that could follow your discussion of ice crystal structure and behavior really nicely.

Would be happy to collaborate on a firn compaction section if you're up for it. The firn review paper that came out of last year's firn symposium workshop will be out shortly and could be a good source for this.

Agreed would love to see some radar basics, and then branch out from there into what kinds of radars are used to observe what processes & why.

[jkingslake]

@benhills, any more thoughts on if/what you would like to contribute? Would be great to have any of this material in there!