Deep ice stratigraphy and basal conditions in Central West Antarctica Revealed by coherent radar

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 246-250

  Laird, Claude M ^a   Blake, William A ^a   Matsuoka, Kenichi ^b   Conway, Howard ^b   Allen, Christopher T ^a   Leuschen, Carl J ^a   Gogineni, Sivaprasad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Glaciology; Ice cores; Ice sheets; Radar measurements

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; BASAL CONDITIONS; BED ROUGHNESS; CLIMATE HISTORY; COHERENT RADAR; HIGH-SENSITIVITY; ICE CORE; ICE CORES; ICE SHEET; ICE THICKNESS; ICE-FLOW MODELS; INTERNAL LAYERS; MULTI-CHANNEL; SURFACE-BASED; VERY HIGH FREQUENCY;

GLACIERS; HOLOGRAPHY; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; STRATIGRAPHY; WELL DRILLING;

ICE;

EID: 77951207792     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2009.2032304     Document Type: Article

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