Seasonal speedup of the Greenland Ice Sheet linked to routing of surface water

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 302, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 423-428

  Palmer, Steven ^a   Shepherd, Andrew ^a   Nienow, Peter ^b   Joughin, Ian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Greenland; Ice dynamics; InSAR; Supraglacial lakes

Indexed keywords

GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; ICE DYNAMICS; ICE SHEET; ICE-SHEET FLOW; INSAR; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; NONUNIFORM; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SUPRAGLACIAL LAKES;

CATCHMENTS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLACIERS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LAKES; RUNOFF; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ICE;

GLACIER DYNAMICS; HYDROLOGY; ICE SHEET; RUNOFF; SURFACE WATER; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 79251598993     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.12.037     Document Type: Article

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