Ice shelf grounding zone structure from ICESat laser altimetry

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 15, 2006, Pages

  Flicker, Helen Amanda ^a   Padman, Laurie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Earth and Space Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE SENSORS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN STRUCTURES; SATELLITES;

GROUNDING ZONE (GZ); OCEAN MODELING; STREAM REGION;

ICE;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GROUNDING LINE; ICE SHELF; LASER; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ANTARCTICA; RONNE ICE SHELF; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 33845649730     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026907     Document Type: Article

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