A 'continuity-index' for assessing ice-sheet dynamics from radar-sounded internal layers

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 335-336, Issue , 2012, Pages 88-94

  Karlsson, Nanna B ^a,b   Rippin, David M ^c   Bingham, Robert G ^d   Vaughan, David G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glaciology; Ice dynamics; Ice penetrating radar; Internal layers; Radio echo sounding; West Antarctica

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; GLACIOLOGY; ICE DYNAMICS; INTERNAL LAYERS; RADIO-ECHO SOUNDING;

DYNAMICS; GLACIERS; RADAR; VELOCITY;

ICE;

DATA SET; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIOLOGY; ICE FLOW; ICE SHEET; RADAR;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; GREENLAND; PINE ISLAND GLACIER; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84862248895     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.04.034     Document Type: Article

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