Mass fluxes and dynamics of Moreno Glacier, Southern Patagonia Icefield

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1407-1410

  Rott, Helmut ^a   Stuefer, Martin ^a   Siegel, Andreas ^a   Skvarca, Pedro ^b   Eckstaller, Alfons ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTO ANTÁRTICO ARGENTINO   (Argentina)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; INTERFEROMETRY; MASS TRANSFER; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CALVING; ICE ABLATION; ICE VELOCITIES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

FLOW; GLACIER; ICE DEPTH; MASS FLUX;

MORENO GLACIER; PATAGONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032076787     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00833     Document Type: Article

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