Airborne-radar and ice-core observations of annual snow accumulation over Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica confirm the spatiotemporal variability of global and regional atmospheric models

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 3649-3654

  Medley, B ^a   Joughin, I ^a   Das, S B ^b   Steig, E J ^a   Conway, H ^a   Gogineni, S ^c   Criscitiello, A S ^b   McConnell, J R ^d   Smith, B E ^a   Van Den Broeke, M R ^e   Lenaerts, J T M ^e   Bromwich, D H ^f   Nicolas, J P ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^d DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

airborne radar; firn; snow accumulation; West Antarctica

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE RADARS; FIRN; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MEASUREMENTS AND MODELING; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY; WEST ANTARCTICA;

RADAR; SNOW;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

AIRBORNE SENSING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; FIRN; GEOACCUMULATION; ICE CORE; RADAR; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANTARCTICA; THWAITES GLACIER; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84880646566     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50706     Document Type: Article

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