An updated and quality controlled surface mass balance dataset for Antarctica

Cryosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 583-597

  Favier, V ^a   Agosta, C ^a,c   Parouty, S ^a   Durand, G ^a   Delaygue, G ^a   Gallee H ^a   Drouet, A S ^a   Trouvilliez, A ^a,b   Krinner, G ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b Cemagref   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DATABASE; ICE SHEET; MASS BALANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA LEVEL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84875864078     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-7-583-2013     Document Type: Article

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