Role of Antarctic ice mass balance in present-day sea-level change

Polar Science

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 149-161

  Shum, C K ^a   Kuo, Chung yen ^b   Guo, Jun yi ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Antarctic ice sheet mass balance; Glacial isostatic adjustment; International Polar Year; Satellite geodesy; Sea level

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ESTIMATION METHOD; GLACIOISOSTASY; ICE; ICE SHEET; MASS BALANCE; MELTING; MODELING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 47949127878     PISSN: 18739652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polar.2008.05.004     Document Type: Article

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