Scale-dependent roughness of a glacier surface: Implications for radar backscatter and aerodynamic roughness modelling

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 52, Issue 177, 2006, Pages 214-222

  Rees, W G ^a   Arnold, N S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER; GLACIER; MODELING; RADAR; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 33747478236     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756506781828665     Document Type: Article

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