Utility of late summer transient snowline migration rate on Taku Glacier, Alaska

Cryosphere

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1127-1133

  Pelto, M ^a  

^a Nichols College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; MASS BALANCE; MODIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW; SUMMER;

ALASKA; TAKU GLACIER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 83755180547     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-5-1127-2011     Document Type: Article

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