Recent retreat of wilkins ice shelf reveals new insights in ice shelf breakup mechanisms

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 263-267

  Braun, Matthias ^a   Humbert, Angelika ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antarctic Peninsula; Breakup; ice shelf; Mechanism; Multisensor; Remote sensing; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; AUSTRAL WINTERS; BENDING STRESS; BREAKUP; BUOYANCY FORCES; ICE SHELF; MELT PONDS; MELT WATERS; MULTISENSOR; RADAR IMAGES; SATELLITE IMAGES; SURFACE CONDITIONS;

FRACTURE; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

ICE;

EID: 65049083183     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2008.2011925     Document Type: Article

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