Electrical freezing potentials measured in a pingo growing in the western Canadian Arctic

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 191-203

  Parameswaran, V R ^a   Mackay, J R ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ELECTRODES; ICE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LENSES; SENSORS; THERMISTORS; THERMOCOUPLES; WATER;

ELECTRIC FREEZING POTENTIALS; PINGO; SOIL SALINITY SENSOR; WATER LENS; WESTERN CANADIAN ARCTIC;

FREEZING;

FREEZING FRONT; FREEZING POTENTIAL; PINGO;

CANADA, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES, TUKTOYAKTUK;

EID: 0030135170     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-232X(95)00027-9     Document Type: Article

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