Measurement and modeling of ablation of the bottom of supraglacial lakes in western Greenland

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Tedesco, M ^a   Lthje, M ^b   Steffen, K ^c   Steiner, N ^a   Fettweis, X ^d   Willis, I ^e   Bayou, N ^c   Banwell, A ^e  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b GeoScandia ^*  (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; CLIMATE MODELS; ICE; TEMPERATURE;

ABLATION RATES; DATA SETS; GREENLAND; ICE SHEET; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SPACE-BORNE; THERMODYNAMIC MODEL; VERTICAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED; WATER TEMPERATURES; WEST GREENLAND;

LAKES;

ABLATION; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; GLACIAL LAKE; ICE COVER; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SENSOR; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMODYNAMICS; VOLUME; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 84855887095     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049882     Document Type: Article

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