Seasonal comparison of ice-surface structures in the ablation area of Jakobshavn Isbræ drainage system, West Greenland

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 37, Issue , 2003, Pages 199-206

  Herzfeld, Ute Christina ^a,b   Mayer, Helmut ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; GLACIER DYNAMICS; MASS BALANCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; JAKOBSHAVN ISBRAE;

EID: 1442360596     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756403781815366     Document Type: Article

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