Basal melt at NorthGRIP modeled from borehole, ice-core and radio-echo sounder observations

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 37, Issue , 2003, Pages 207-212

  Dahl Jensen, Dorthe ^a   Gundestrup, Niels ^a   Gogineni, S Prasad ^b   Miller, Heinz ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASAL MELTING; GRIP; ICE CORE; ICE SHEET; TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 1442336160     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756403781815492     Document Type: Article

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