Periodic surface features in coastal East Antarctica

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 22, 2006, Pages

  Anschütz, Helgard ^a   Eisen, Olaf ^a,b   Rack, Wolfgang ^a   Scheinert, Mirko ^c  

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

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; SLOPE STABILITY; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

COASTAL AREAS; SURFACE ACCUMULATION; SURFACE SLOPE; SURFACE UNDULATIONS;

COASTAL ZONES;

ELEVATION; GPS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; MASS BALANCE; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; TOPOGRAPHY; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 34548596670     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027871     Document Type: Article

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