The 20th century retreat of ice caps in Iceland derived from airborne SAR: W-Vatnajökull and N-Mýrdalsjökull

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 237, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 508-515

  Magnússon, Eyjólfur ^a   Björnsson, Helgi ^a   Dall, Jørgen ^b   Pálsson, Finnur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Glacier changes; PolSAR; SAR; Terminal moraines

Indexed keywords

GLACIER CHANGES; ICE CAPS; TERMINAL MORAINES;

GLACIERS; ICE; INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIMETERS; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

ICE CAP; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; ICELAND; WORLD;

EID: 24144463951     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.06.038     Document Type: Article

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