Layer disturbances and the radio-echo free zone in ice sheets

Cryosphere

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 195-203

  Drews, R ^a   Eisen, O ^a,b   Weikusat, I ^a   Kipfstuhl, S ^a   Lambrecht, A ^a,c   Steinhage, D ^a   Wilhelms, F ^a   Miller, H ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Institut für Umweltphysik   (Germany)

^c Deutsche Montan Technologie GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; ECHO SOUNDER; ICE CORE; ICE FLOW; ICE SHEET; RHEOLOGY;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; EAST ANTARCTICA; GREENLAND; QUEEN MAUD LAND;

EID: 75749102636     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-3-195-2009     Document Type: Article

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