Accelerated ice discharge from the Antarctic Peninsula following the collapse of Larsen B ice shelf

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 18, 2004, Pages

  Rignot, E ^a,b   Casassa, G ^b   Gogineni, P ^c   Krabill, W ^d   Rivera, A ^b   Thomas, R ^b,d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS CIENTÍFICOS CECS   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

1827 Hydrology: Glaciology (1863); 1863 Hydrology: Snow and ice (1827); 3349 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Polar meteorology; 6924 Radio Science: Interferometry; 9310 Information Related to Geographic Region: Antarctica

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; GLACIERS; INTERFEROMETRY; IONS;

ICE SHELF; RADAR DATA;

RADAR;

DEGLACIATION; GLACIER DYNAMICS; ICE SHELF; SATELLITE DATA; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; LARSEN ICE SHELF; WEST ANTARCTICA; WORLD;

EID: 10644232314     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020697     Document Type: Article

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