Flow velocities of Alaskan glaciers

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Burgess, Evan W ^a   Forster, Richard R ^b   Larsen, Christopher F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW VELOCITY; GLACIER FLOW; ICE SHEET; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; FLOW RATE; GLACIER; UNITED STATES;

ALASKA; COLD CLIMATE; FREEZING; ICE; ICE COVER; OCEANS AND SEAS;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84880337522     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3146     Document Type: Article

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