Iceland rising: Solid Earth response to ice retreat inferred from satellite radar interferometry and visocelastic modeling

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1331-1344

  Auriac, A ^a   Spaans, K H ^a   Sigmundsson, F ^a   Hooper, A ^b   Schmidt, P ^c   Lund, B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Finite element modeling; GIA; InSAR; Rheology

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ICE CAP; ICE RETREAT; ICE THICKNESS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; RHEOLOGY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOLID EARTH; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VISCOELASTICITY;

ICELAND;

EID: 84880746976     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrb.50082     Document Type: Article

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