Forty-seven years of research on the Devon Island ice cap, Arctic Canada

Arctic

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-29

  Boon, Sarah ^a   Burgess, David O ^b   Koerner, Roy M ^c   Sharp, Martin J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^c NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canadian Arctic; Climate change; Devon Island ice cap; Glaciology; Ice cores; Ice dynamics; Mass balance; Tidewater

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRYOSAT-2; GEOMETRY; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; GLACIOLOGY; ICE CAP; ICE CORE; PALEOCLIMATE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE SENSOR;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; DEVON ICE CAP; NUNAVUT;

EID: 77950830986     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14430/arctic643     Document Type: Article

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