Dust from the dark region in the western ablation zone of the Greenland ice sheet

Cryosphere

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 589-601

  Wientjes, I G M ^a   Van De Wal, R S W ^a   Reichart, G J ^b,c   Sluijs, A ^b   Oerlemans, J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ALBEDO; ALGA; CYANOBACTERIUM; DARK; DUST; HUMAN ACTIVITY; ICE SHEET; MARGINAL ICE ZONE; OUTCROP; PERIGLACIAL LANDFORM;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

ALGAE; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 79960722303     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-5-589-2011     Document Type: Article

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