Surface ablation rates on Moraine Corrie Glacier, Antarctica

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 22, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 221-231

  Morris, E M ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fossil Bluff; Moraine Corrie Glacier; Surface ablation rates

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIER; SURFACE FLUX;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0033405413     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(99)00039-9     Document Type: Article

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