Glacier surge dynamics of Sortebræ, east Greenland, from synthetic aperture radar feature tracking

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Pritchard, Hamish ^a,b,c   Murray, Tavi ^a   Luckman, Adrian ^b   Strozzi, Tazio ^b,d   Barr, Stuart ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d GAMMA REMOTE SENSING   (Switzerland)

^e NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR CORRECTION; FLOW VELOCITY; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER FLOW; GLACIER SURGE; LOW TEMPERATURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THAWING; TRACKING;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; SORTEBRAE;

EID: 33750345182     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JF000233     Document Type: Article

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