From ice-shelf tributary to tidewater glacier: Continued rapid recession, acceleration and thinning of Röhss Glacier following the 1995 collapse of the Prince Gustav Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 57, Issue 203, 2011, Pages 397-406

  Glasser, N F ^a   Scambos, T A ^b   Bohlander, J ^b   Truffer, M ^c   Pettit, E ^c   Davies, B J ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTER; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; GLACIER RETREAT; GLACIOLOGY; ICE SHELF; ICEBERG CALVING; LANDSAT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIDEWATER GLACIER; TIMESCALE;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; JAMES ROSS ISLAND; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 80051898537     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/002214311796905578     Document Type: Article

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