Rapid thinning of parts of the southern Greenland ice sheet

Science

Volumn 283, Issue 5407, 1999, Pages 1522-1524

  Krabill, W ^a   Frederick, E ^b   Manizade, S ^b   Martin, C ^b   Sonntag, J ^b   Swift, R ^b   Thomas, R ^b   Wright, W ^a   Yungel, J ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b EG&G   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE;

ALTIMETRY; GLACIER; ICE SHEET;

AIRCRAFT; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FLIGHT; GEOLOGY; GREENLAND; LASER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASHORE;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0033525608     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5407.1522     Document Type: Article

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11. Supported by NASA's Polar Research Program and ICESAT Project. We thank the crew of the NASA P-3 aircraft used for the Greenland surveys, W. Abdalati for analysis of Greenland coastal meteorological data for temperature trends, and C. H. Davis and H. J. Zwally for providing their latest results from analysis of satellite radar-altimeter data. We wish to acknowledge the outstanding technical support of R. Mitchell, A. Waller, and J. Scott.