Glacier acceleration and thinning after ice shelf collapse in the Larsen B embayment, Antarctica

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 18, 2004, Pages

  Scambos, T A ^a   Bohlander, J A ^a   Shuman, C A ^b   Skvarca, P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO ANTÁRTICO ARGENTINO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

1640 Global change: Remote sensing; 1827 Hydrology: Glaciology (1863); 1863 Hydrology: Snow and ice (1827)

Indexed keywords

GLACIERS; VELOCITY;

ICE VELOCITIES; LASER ALTIMETRY;

ICE;

DEGLACIATION; GLACIER DYNAMICS; ICE SHELF;

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

EID: 10644239937     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020670     Document Type: Article

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