Transmission of basal variability to a glacier surface

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Gudmundsson, G Hilmar ^a,b  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Glaciers; Ice streams; Kinematic waves; Mathematical geophysics

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BEDROCK; BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; SURFACE LAYER; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0042885459     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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