New boundary conditions for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet: Subglacial topography of the Thwaites and Smith glacier catchments

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Holt, John W ^a   Blankenship, Donald D ^a   Morse, David L ^a   Young, Duncan A ^a   Peters, Matthew E ^a   Kempf, Scott D ^a   Richter, Thomas G ^a   Vaughan, David G ^b   Corr, Hugh F J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLACIERS; OCEANOGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

DEGLACIATION; ICE SHEET; SUBGLACIAL TOPOGRAPHY;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CATCHMENT; GLACIER; GLACIER DYNAMICS; ICE SHEET; ICE-OCEAN INTERACTION; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT;

AMUNDSEN SEA; ANTARCTICA; PINE ISLAND GLACIER; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; THWAITES GLACIER; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 33745727418     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025561     Document Type: Article

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