Surface roughness on the Greenland ice sheet from airborne laser altimetry

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 3887-3890

  Van Der Veen, C J ^a   Krabill, W B ^b,c   Csatho, B M ^a   Bolzan, J F ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER APPLICATIONS; RADIO ALTIMETERS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; ANEROID ALTIMETERS; STATISTICS; STRATIGRAPHY;

AIRBORNE LASER ALTIMETRY; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; HIGH RESOLUTION; INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STANDARD DEVIATION; STRATIGRAPHIC RECORDS; SURFACE RELIEFS; WATER EQUIVALENT;

ICE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ALTIMETRY; ICE SHEET; LASER METHOD; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0032532921     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900041     Document Type: Article

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