Mass balance of polar ice from long wavelength features of the Earth's gravitational field

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 18, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 313-326

  Trupin, Andrew S ^a   Panfili, Raphael P ^a  

^a VASSAR COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Global change; Ice sheets; Isostacy; Sea level

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLACIERS; GRAVITATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; SEA LEVEL; VISCOSITY;

EARTH GRAVITATIONAL FIELD; FORWARD SOLUTION; LAGGED RESPONSE; MASS BALANCE; POLAR ICE SHEET; SURFACE ACCUMULATION RATE; THICKNESS TIME RATE; ZONAL COEFFICIENTS; ZONAL HARMONICS;

GEOPHYSICS;

GLOBAL CHANGE; GRAVITATIONAL FIELD; ICE SHEET; ICE SHEET THICKNESS; ICE SHEETS; ISOSTASY; SEA LEVEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ANTARCTICA; GREENLAND;

EID: 0031133967     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1006552429673     Document Type: Article

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