Greenland mass balance from GRACE

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Velicogna, Isabella ^a   Wahr, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; GLACIERS; GRAVITATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL;

GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENT (GRACE); ICE MASS; ICE SHEET; MASS BALANCE; POST GLACIAL REBOUND;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ICE SHEET; ISOSTASY; POSTGLACIAL REBOUND;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; WORLD;

EID: 27744522412     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023955     Document Type: Article

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