Interannual variations of shallow firn temperature at Greenland summit

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 35, Issue , 2002, Pages 368-370

  Li, Jun ^a   Wang, Weili ^a   Zwally, H Jay ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; FIRN; ICE CORE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE;

GREENLAND; SUMMMIT;

EID: 0036968570     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756402781816933     Document Type: Article

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