ASIRAS airborne radar resolves internal annual layers in the dry-snow zone of Greenland

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Hawley, Robert L ^a   Morris, E M ^a,b   Cullen, R ^c   Nixdorf, U ^d   Shepherd, A P ^a   Wingham, D J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^d ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ICE; INTERFEROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; NEUTRON SCATTERING; PERMITTIVITY; RADAR; VOLUME FRACTION;

DRY-SNOW ZONE; HIGH RESOLUTION DENSITY; INTERNAL ANNUAL LAYERS; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW DENSITY; SPACE-BORNE RADAR ALTIMETER;

SNOW;

AIRBORNE SENSING; RADAR IMAGERY; SNOW COVER;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 33645635842     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025147     Document Type: Article

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