Revealing the nature of radar reflections in ice: DEP-based FDTD forward modeling

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Eisen, Olaf ^a   Wilhelms, Frank ^a   Nixdorf, Uwe ^a   Miller, Heinrich ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; RADAR; CLIMATE MODELS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; RADAR REFLECTION;

RADAR REFLECTIONS; COMMON MID POINTS; FINITE -DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS (FDTD); FORWARD MODELING; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); HIGH RESOLUTION; MODEL RESULTS; NEW APPROACHES; RADIO-ECHO SOUNDING;

ICE;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; ICE; ICE CORE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; WAVE PROPAGATION;

PROXYS;

EID: 0043202777     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002gl016403     Document Type: Article

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