Processes and rates of ice loss at the terminus of Tasman Glacier, New Zealand

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 22, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 79-91

  Purdie, Jennifer ^a   Fitzharris, Blair ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Calving; Debris layer; Melt; Tasman Glacier; Terminus

Indexed keywords

GLACIER; ICE; MASS BALANCE;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0033405663     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(99)00027-2     Document Type: Article

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