Recent ice loss from the Fleming and other glaciers, Wordie Bay, West Antarctic Peninsula

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Rignot, Eric ^a,b   Casassa, G ^b   Gogineni, S ^c   Kanagaratnam, P ^c   Krabill, W ^d   Pritchard, H ^e   Rivera, A ^b   Thomas, R ^b,f   Turner, J ^e   Vaughan, D ^e  

^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)

^e BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^f NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; DATA ACQUISITION; INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR;

AIRBORNE ICE; ICE LOSS; ICE SHELF REMOVAL; SATELLITE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY DATA;

SEA ICE; ICE;

DEGLACIATION; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; ICE THICKNESS;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; WEST ANTARCTICA; WORLD;

AIRBORNE ICE; ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ELEVATION DATA; GLACIER FLOW; ICE SHELF REMOVAL; LASER ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY DATA; SNOW ACCUMULATION;

EID: 21844440349     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021947     Document Type: Article

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