Macro-scale bed roughness of the Siple Coast ice streams in west Antartica

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 29, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 1591-1596

  Siegert, Martin J ^a   Taylor, Justin ^a   Payne, Antony J ^a   Hubbard, Bryn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bed roughness; Ice streams; Radio echo sounding; West Antarctica

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; ICE; MORPHOLOGY; STREAM FLOW;

BED MORPHOLOGY; ICE SHEET DYNAMICS; ICE STREAMS; SUBGLACIAL BED ROUGHNESS;

COASTAL ZONES;

BED ROUGHNESS; ECHO SOUNDING; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; ICE FLOW; ICE STREAM; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; SIPLE DOME; WEST ANTARCTICA; WORLD;

EID: 11244337880     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1100     Document Type: Article

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