The natural fluctuations of firn densification and their effect on the geodetic determination of ice sheet mass balance

Climatic Change

Volumn 40, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 605-624

  Arthern, R J ^a,b   Wingham, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY; FIRN; ICE SHEET; MASS BALANCE;

EID: 0031772595     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1005320713306     Document Type: Article

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