The thermomechanical response of the Greenland ice sheet to various climate scenarios

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 243-260

  Calov, Reinhard ^a   Hutter, Kolumban ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASAL SLIDING; CLIMATE SIMULATION; ICE SHEET; SHALLOW ICE APPROXIMATION; THERMAL REGIME; THERMOMECHANICAL RESPONSE;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0029749184     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00219499     Document Type: Article

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