Snow accumulation variability and random walk: How to interpret changes of surface elevation in Antarctica

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 227, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 273-280

  Rémy, Frédérique ^a   Parrenin, Frédéric ^a  

^a CNES   (France)

Author keywords

Ice sheet; Mass balance; Snow accumulation variability; Stochastic process

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETRIC DATA; HIGH-FREQUENCY NOISE; ICE SHEET; MASS VARIATIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DENSIFICATION; EARTH SCIENCES; ERROR CORRECTION; ICE; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

SNOW;

ELEVATION; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; ICE SHEET; SNOW ACCUMULATION; STOCHASTICITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 7044222893     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.09.003     Document Type: Article

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