Observed glacial changes on the King George Island ice cap, Antarctica, in the last decade

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 79, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 99-109

  Ruckamp M ^a,c   Braun, M ^b,d   Suckro, S ^a,e   Blindow, N ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

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

^f FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antarctic Peninsula; Climate change; DGPS; Elevation change; Glacier retreat; Mass loss; Remote sensing; South Shetland Islands

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; DGPS; ELEVATION CHANGE; GLACIER RETREAT; MASS LOSS; SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; SNOW; SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

ICE;

ACCUMULATION; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CRYOSPHERE; DGPS; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; ICE CAP; ICE CORE; ICESAT; LINEARITY; MELT; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; KING GEORGE ISLAND; SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 80053460326     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2011.06.009     Document Type: Review

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