Bedrock displacements in Greenland manifest ice mass variations, climate cycles and climate change

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 30, 2012, Pages 11944-11948

  Bevis, Michael ^a   Wahr, John ^b   Khan, Shfaqat A ^c   Madsen, Finn Bo ^c   Brown, Abel ^a   Willis, Michael ^d   Kendrick, Eric ^a   Knudsen, Per ^c   Box, Jason E ^a   Van Dam, Tonie ^e   Caccamise II, Dana J ^a   Johns, Bjorn ^f   Nylen, Thomas ^f   Abbott, Robin ^g   White, Seth ^f   Miner, Jeremy ^f   Forsberg, Rene ^c   Zhou, Hao ^a   Wang, Jian ^a   Wilson, Terry ^a   Bromwich, David ^a   Francis, Olivier ^e   more..

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^f University of Connecticut   (United States)

^g Polar Field Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate cycles; Crustal motion geodesy; Elasticity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BEDROCK DISPLACEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD CLIMATE; ELASTICITY; GEOGRAPHIC ELEVATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GLACIAL MASS BALANCE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GREENLAND; ICE SHEET; MELTING POINT; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; VELOCITY;

CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ELASTICITY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOLOGICAL PROCESSES; GREENLAND; ICE COVER; SEASONS;

EID: 84864327800     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1204664109     Document Type: Article

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