Elastic response of floating glacier ice to impact of long-period ocean waves

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Sergienko, O V ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; ELASTICITY; FLOATING ICE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; ICE SHELF; OCEAN WAVE; SEA ICE; THERMAL REGIME;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 78650019213     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JF001721     Document Type: Article

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