Aerial photographs reveal late-20th-century dynamic ice loss in Northwestern Greenland

Science

Volumn 337, Issue 6094, 2012, Pages 569-573

  Kjær, Kurt H ^a   Khan, Shfaqat A ^b   Korsgaard, Niels J ^a   Wahr, John ^c   Bamber, Jonathan L ^d   Hurkmans, Ruud ^d   Van Den Broeke, Michiel ^e   Timm, Lars H ^a   Kjeldsen, Kristian K ^a   Bjørk, Anders A ^a   Larsen, Nicolaj K ^f   Jørgensen, Lars Tyge ^g   Færch Jensen, Anders ^g   Willerslev, Eske ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^g Danish National Cadastre and Survey   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; GLOBAL WARMING; ICE RETREAT; ICE THICKNESS; MASS BALANCE; REMOTE SENSING; SEA LEVEL; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DYNAMICS; ENERGY; GREENLAND; HISTORY; ICE SHEET; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VELOCITY;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84864779544     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1220614     Document Type: Article

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