Grounding line movement and ice shelf buttressing in marine ice sheets

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Goldberg, D ^a   Holland, D M ^a   Schoof, C ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAPSE; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDING LINE; ICE SHEET; ICE SHELF; NUMERICAL MODEL; TRANSVERSE ISOTROPY;

EID: 77954220119     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JF001227     Document Type: Article

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