Ice Thickness and Basal Conditions of Vestfonna Ice Cap, Eastern Svalbard

Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 311-322

  Pettersson, Rickard ^a   Christoffersen, Poul ^b   Dowdeswell, Julian A ^b   Pohjola, Veijo A ^a   Hubbard, Alun ^c   Strozzi, Tazio ^d  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d GAMMA REMOTE SENSING   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bed topography; Radar; Radio echo sounding; Subglacial bed conditions; Svalbard; Vestfonna

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SENSING; BASAL ICE; DATA SET; ECHO SOUNDING; GLACIER; ICE CAP; ICE THICKNESS; RADAR; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT;

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

EID: 83055166294     PISSN: 04353676     EISSN: 14680459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0459.2011.00438.x     Document Type: Article

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