Refined broad-scale sub-glacial morphology of Aurora Subglacial Basin, East Antarctica derived by an ice-dynamics-based interpolation scheme

Cryosphere

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 551-560

  Roberts, J L ^a,b   Warner, R C ^a,b   Young, D ^c   Wright, A ^d   Van Ommen, T D ^a,b   Blankenship, D D ^c   Siegert, M ^d   Young, N W ^a,b   Tabacco, I E ^e   Forieri, A ^e   Passerini, A ^f   Zirizzotti, A ^f   Frezzotti, M ^g  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^b ANTARCTIC CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^f ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^g ENEA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; GEOMETRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; HOMOGENEITY; ICE SHEET; ICE THICKNESS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; RESOLUTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 79960371280     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-5-551-2011     Document Type: Article

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