Balance velocities of the Greenland ice sheet

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 3045-3048

  Joughin, Lan ^a   Fahnestock, Mark ^b   Ekholm, Simon ^c   Kwok, Ron ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Kort & Matrikelstyrelsen   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF SOLIDS; GLACIERS; ICE; RADAR MEASUREMENT; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VELOCITY;

GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ICE;

ICE FLOW; ICE SHEET VELOCITY; MAPPING;

GREENLAND;

FLOW SPEED; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; ICE SHEET MODELLING; ICE STREAMS; MASS BALANCE; SOURCE DATA; VELOCITY CONTOURS;

EID: 0031426741     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL53151     Document Type: Article

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