Changes of Glacier Frontal Positions of Vestfonna (Nordaustlandet, Svalbard)

Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 301-310

  Braun, Matthias ^a,b   Pohjola, Veijo A ^c   Pettersson, Rickard ^c   Möller, Marco ^d   Finkelnburg, Roman ^e   Falk, Ulrike ^b   Scherer, Dieter ^e   Schneider, Christoph ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Advance; Arctic ice cap; Glacier extent; Ice front; Retreat; Surge; Svalbard; Vestfonna

Indexed keywords

GLACIER DYNAMICS; ICE CAP; ICE RETREAT; INTERFEROMETRY; MASS BALANCE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ARCTIC; NORDAUSTLANDET; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; VESTFONNA;

EID: 83055165656     PISSN: 04353676     EISSN: 14680459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0459.2011.00437.x     Document Type: Article

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