Spatially extensive estimates of annual accumulation in the dry snow zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet determined from radar altimetry

Cryosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 467-474

  De La Pena S ^a   Nienow, P ^a   Shepherd, A ^b   Helm, V ^c   Mair, D ^d   Hanna, E ^e   Huybrechts, P ^f   Guo, Q ^g   Cullen, R ^h   Wingham, D ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^f VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^g University of California   (United States)

^h EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ICE SHEET; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADAR ALTIMETRY; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 78149326435     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-4-467-2010     Document Type: Article

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