Mapping basal melt under the northern Greenland ice sheet

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 585-592

  Oswald, Gordon K A ^a   Gogineni, S P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Greenland Ice Sheet; radar; radio echo sounding; subglacial water

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE RADARS; ANTARCTICA; GLOBAL SEA LEVELS; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; ICE SHEET; ICE STREAMS; MELT WATER; RADIO-ECHO SOUNDING; SUBGLACIAL LAKES;

FLIGHT PATHS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; RADAR; RADIO SYSTEMS; SEA LEVEL;

ICE;

AIRBORNE SENSING; BASAL MELTING; BEDROCK; BOREHOLE; ECHO SOUNDER; GLACIAL LAKE; ICE SHEET; ICE STREAM; MAPPING METHOD; MELTWATER; RADAR; SEA LEVEL; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; THAWING;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 84856359922     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2162072     Document Type: Article

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