Ice speed of a calving glacier modulated by small fluctuations in basal water pressure

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 597-600

  Sugiyama, Shin ^a   Skvarca, Pedro ^b   Naito, Nozomu ^c   Enomoto, Hiroyuki ^d   Tsutaki, Shun ^a   Tone, Kenta ^a   Marinsek, Sebastián ^b   Aniya, Masamu ^e  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTO ANTÁRTICO ARGENTINO   (Argentina)

^c HIROSHIMA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BASAL ICE; BOREHOLE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER FLOW; GLACIER RETREAT; ICE FLOW; WATER FLOW;

ALASKA; ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; GREENLAND; PATAGONIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052340981     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1218     Document Type: Article

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