Long wavelength sea level and solid surface perturbations driven by polar ice mass variations: Fingerprinting greenland and antarctic ice sheet flux

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 108, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 81-93

  Tamisiea, M E ^a   Mitrovica, J X ^b   Davis, J L ^c   Milne, G A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; CONFERENCE PAPER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRAVITY; GREENLAND; ICE CORE RECORD; ICE SHEET FLUX; MASS; MELTING POINT; PHYSICS; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL; SEA LEVEL FINGERPRINT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOLID; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TIDE;

EID: 0042660712     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026178014950     Document Type: Conference Paper

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