Local to regional-scale variability of annual net accumulation on the Greenland ice sheet from PARCA cores

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 106, Issue D24, 2001, Pages 33839-33851

  Mosley Thompson, E ^a   McConnell, J R ^b   Bales, R C ^c   Li, Z ^a   Lin, P N ^a   Steffen, K ^d   Thompson, L G ^a,e   Edwards, R ^a,f   Bathke, D ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIER MASS BALANCE; ICE CORE; ICE SHEET; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0035726740     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JD900067     Document Type: Article

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