Stand-alone single-frequency GPS ice velocity observations on Nordenskiöldbreen, Svalbard

Cryosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 593-604

  Den Ouden, M A G ^a   Reijmer, C H ^a   Pohjola, V ^b   Van De Wal, R S W ^a   Oerlemans, J ^a   Boot, W ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GLACIER; GPS; IONOSPHERE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PERIODICITY; RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE; VELOCITY;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 78650352374     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-4-593-2010     Document Type: Article

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