Surface-melt driven Laurentide Ice Sheet retreat during the early Holocene

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 24, 2009, Pages

  Carlson, A E ^a   Anslow, F S ^b   Obbink, E A ^a   LeGrande, A N ^c,e   Ullman, D J ^a   Licciardi, J M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

^d Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

^e Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; BASAL SLIDING; HOLOCENES; ICE SHEET; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEETS; MASS BALANCE MODEL; MASS LOSS; SURFACE ABLATION; SURFACE ENERGIES; SURFACE MASS BALANCE; SURFACE MELTING; VOLUME RECONSTRUCTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIERS; ICE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TENSION;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING;

BASAL MELTING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HOLOCENE; ICE RETREAT; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; MASS BALANCE; RECONSTRUCTION; SURFACE ENERGY;

EID: 75649151616     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040948     Document Type: Article

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