Reduced glacier sliding caused by persistent drainage from a subglacial lake

Cryosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-20

  Magnusson E ^a,b,c   Bjornsson H ^a   Rott, H ^b   Palsson F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE; ERS-1; ERS-2; GLACIER DYNAMICS; ICE-DAMMED LAKE; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ICELAND; VATNAJOKULL;

EID: 75649118958     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-4-13-2010     Document Type: Article

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