Modeling englacial radar attenuation at Siple Dome, West Antarctica, using ice chemistry and temperature data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  MacGregor, Joseph A ^a   Winebrenner, Dale P ^a   Conway, Howard ^a   Matsuoka, Kenichi ^a   Mayewski, Paul A ^b   Clow, Gary D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; ICE CORE; ICE SHEET; MAPPING; MODELING; RADAR; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE;

ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 36248930376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JF000717     Document Type: Article

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