Acceleration of surface lowering on the tidewater glaciers of Icy Bay, Alaska, U.S.A. from InSAR DEMs and ICESat altimetry

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 265, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 345-359

  Muskett, Reginald R ^a   Lingle, Craig S ^a   Sauber, Jeanne M ^b   Rabus, Bernhard T ^c   Tangborn, Wendell V ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c MacDonald Dettwiller and Associates   (Canada)

^d HyMet Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; glacier thinning; ICESat; remote sensing; retreat; SRTM; tidewater glaciers

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETRY; GLACIER THINNING; TIDEWATER GLACIERS; WINTER MEAN TEMPERATURES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COASTAL ZONES; GLACIERS; GLOBAL WARMING; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIDES; WEATHER SATELLITES;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

ACCELERATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ESTIMATION METHOD; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER RETREAT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SNOW ACCUMULATION; TEMPERATURE; TIDEWATER GLACIER; WARMING;

ALASKA; ICY BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38049082210     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.10.012     Document Type: Article

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