Spatial and temporal variability of snow accumulation in East Antarctica from traverse data

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 51, Issue 172, 2005, Pages 113-124

  Frezzotti, Massimo ^a   Pourchet, Michel ^b   Flora, Onelio ^c   Gandolfi, Stefano ^d   Gay, Michel ^b   Urbini, Stefano ^e   Vincent, Christian ^b   Becagli, Silvia ^f   Gragnani, Roberto ^a   Proposito, Marco ^a   Severi, Mirko ^f   Traversi, Rita ^f   Udisti, Roberto ^f   Fily, Michel ^b  

^a ENEA C R CASACCIA   (Italy)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^e ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE CORE; MASS BALANCE; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; EAST ANTARCTICA; WORLD;

EID: 23844432849     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756505781829502     Document Type: Article

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