Snow megadune fields on the East Antarctic Plateau: Estreme atmospher-ice interction

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 22, 2000, Pages 3719-3722

  Fahnestock, Mark A ^a   Scambos, Ted A ^b   Shuman, Christopher A ^a   Arthern, Robert J ^c   Winebrenner, Dale P ^c   Kwok, Ron ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUNE FIELD; EOLIAN PROCESS; SNOW; WIND;

ANTARCTICA;

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ICE; MICROWAVES; RADAR IMAGING; RADIOMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND EFFECTS;

ANTARCTIC PLATEAU; ICE INTERACTIONS; KATABATIC WINDS; LONG WAVELENGTH; SNOW PARTICLES; STRONG SCATTERINGS; SURFACE RIPPLES; WIND TRANSPORT;

SNOW;

ATMOSPHERE ICE INTERACTION; MICROWAVE EMISSION; SNOW MEGADUNE FIELDS;

EID: 0034351890     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL011248     Document Type: Article

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