Towards remote monitoring of sub-seasonal glacier mass balance

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 54, Issue 63, 2013, Pages 75-83

  Huss, Matthias ^a   Sold, Leo ^a   Hoelzle, Martin ^a   Stokvis, Mazzal ^a   Salzmann, Nadine ^a,b   Farinotti, Daniel ^c   Zemp, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOACCUMULATION; GLACIER DYNAMICS; MASS BALANCE; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW COVER; VALLEY GLACIER;

ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84881655381     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/2013AoG63A427     Document Type: Article

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