Radio echo sounding data analysis of the Shackleton Ice Shelf

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 79-87

  Urbini, Stefano ^a   Cafarella, Lili ^a   Zirizzotti, Achille ^a   Tabacco, Ignazio E ^b   Bottari, Carla ^a   Baskaradas, James A ^a   Young, Neal ^c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHO SOUNDING; GLACIER; ICE SHEET; ICE SHELF; ICE THICKNESS; RADAR;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; SHACKLETON RANGE;

EID: 77956192674     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4401/ag-4563     Document Type: Article

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