Modeling supraglacial water routing and lake filling on the Greenland Ice Sheet

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Banwell, Alison F ^a   Arnold, Neil S ^a   Willis, Ian C ^a   Tedesco, Marco ^b   Ahlstrm, Andreas P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

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EID: 84868032604     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JF002393     Document Type: Article

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