Volume and area changes of the Milne Ice Shelf, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada, since 1950

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Mortimer, Colleen A ^a,b   Copland, Luke ^a   Mueller, Derek R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER FLOW; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; ICE SHELF; MASS BALANCE; SEA ICE;

CANADA; ELLESMERE ISLAND; NUNAVUT; QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS;

EID: 84867637233     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JF002074     Document Type: Article

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