GRACE observes small-scale mass loss in Greenland

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 20, 2008, Pages

  Wouters, Bert ^a   Chambers, D ^b   Schrama, E J O ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEODETIC SATELLITES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL; WATER LEVELS;

GLOBAL MEAN SEA LEVELS; GREENLAND; ICE SHEETS; MASS DISTRIBUTIONS; MASS LOSSES; REGIONAL SCALES; SATELLITE GRAVITIES;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ICE SHEET; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 58249094542     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034816     Document Type: Article

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