Sudden increase in tidal response linked to calving and acceleration at a large Greenland outlet glacier

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Juan, Julia De ^c   Elósegui, Pedro ^c   Nettles, Meredith ^d   Larsen, Tine B ^a   Davis, James L ^b   Hamilton, Gordon S ^f   Stearns, Leigh A ^g   Andersen, Morten L ^a   Ekström, Göran ^d   Ahlstrøm, Andreas P ^a   Stenseng, Lars ^e   Khan, S Abbas ^e   Forsberg, René ^e  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DE L ESPAI CSIC IEEC   (Spain)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCOMITANT REDUCTION; DRAINAGE SYSTEMS; GEODETIC DATA; GLACIER FLOW; GREENLAND; ICE STREAMS; LONGITUDINAL STRAIN; OCEAN TIDES; TIDAL FORCING; TIDAL RESPONSE;

DRAINAGE; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; GEODESY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; STRAIN RATE;

GLACIERS;

DATA INTERPRETATION; EARTHQUAKE; FLOW PATTERN; GEODESY; GLACIER; ICE BREAKUP; TIDAL CYCLE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 77954395129     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043289     Document Type: Article

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