Accelerated elevation change of greenland's jakobshavn glacier observed by ICESat and IceBridge

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1133-1137

  Qi, Wenlu ^a   Braun, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat); Cloud; Elevation change; Greenland ice sheet (GRIS); Ice; IceBridge; Jakobshavn isbrae glacier

Indexed keywords

ELEVATION CHANGE; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; ICEBRIDGE; JAKOBSHAVN ISBRAE/GLACIER; LAND ELEVATION SATELLITES;

CLOUDS; GLACIERS; SEA LEVEL;

ICE;

EID: 84879982077     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2231954     Document Type: Article

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