Mass balance of Devon Ice Cap, Canadian Arctic

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 46, Issue , 2007, Pages 249-254

  Shepherd, Andrew ^a,c   Du, Zhijun ^a   Benham, Toby J ^a   Dowdeswell, Julian A ^a   Morris, Elizabeth M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; GLACIER SURGE; ICE CAP; RUNOFF; SEA LEVEL; SNOWPACK; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CANADA; DEVON ICE CAP; NORTH AMERICA; NUNAVUT;

EID: 49649098164     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756407782871279     Document Type: Conference Paper

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