Diurnal fluctuations in glacier ice deformation: Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Switzerland

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1272-1284

  Mair, Douglas ^a   Hubbard, Bryn ^b   Nienow, Peter ^c   Willis, Ian ^d   Fischer, Urs H ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Glacier dynamics; Hydrology; Ice deformation

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; ICE; SPEED; STRESSES;

BASAL ICE; DIURNAL CYCLING; DIURNAL FLUCTUATIONS; DIURNAL PATTERNS; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER ICE; HYDROLOGY; ICE DEFORMATION; INTERNAL DEFORMATION; MECHANICAL SUPPORTS; PLUG FLOW; PROGLACIAL; SPEED UPS; STREAM DISCHARGE; STRESS REGIMES; SURFACE VELOCITIES; SWITZERLAND; TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS; TIME-SCALES; VERTICAL VELOCITIES;

GLACIERS;

BASAL FLOW; BASAL ICE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; GLACIER FLOW; GLACIOLOGY; HYDRAULICS; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TIMESCALE;

ALPS; CENTRAL ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HAUT GLACIER D'AROLLA; PENNINE ALPS; SWITZERLAND; VALAIS;

EID: 48549104677     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1612     Document Type: Article

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