On the long-term memory of the Greenland ice sheet

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Rogozhina, I ^a   Martinec, Z ^b,c   Hagedoorn, J M ^a   Thomas, M ^a   Fleming, K ^d  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; GIS; ICE CORE; ICE FLOW; ICE SHEET; PALEOCLIMATE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 79952294912     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JF001787     Document Type: Article

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