Melting and freezing beneath Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2003, Pages

  Joughin, Ian ^a   Padman, Laurence ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b EARTH AND SPACE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIERS; ICE; OCEANOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING;

DATA SETS;

GEOPHYSICS;

FREEZING; ICE SHELF; MELTING; REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE;

ANTARCTICA; FILCHNER-RONNE ICE SHELF;

EID: 0042740442     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL016941     Document Type: Article

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