Glacier specific ablation rate derived by remote sensing measurements

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 10-1-10-4

  Reeh, Niels ^a   Mohr, Johan Jacob ^a   Krabill, William B ^a   Thomas, Robert ^b   Oerter, Hans ^b   Gundestrup, Niels ^c   Bøggild, Carl Egede ^d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER APPLICATIONS; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ICE SHEETS;

GLACIERS;

ABLATION; AIRBORNE SENSING; ALTIMETRY; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; INTERFEROMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA;

(NORTHEAST); GREENLAND;

EID: 0037104962     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002gl015307     Document Type: Article

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