Subaqueous melting of Store Glacier, west Greenland from three-dimensional, high-resolution numerical modeling and ocean observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 4648-4653

  Xu, Yun ^a   Rignot, Eric ^a,b   Fenty, Ian ^b   Menemenlis, Dimitris ^b   Flexas, M Mar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; glaciology; Greenland; hydrology; ocean modeling

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLACIOLOGY; GREENLAND; HIGH RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS; HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL MODELS; MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; OCEAN MODEL; SUBGLACIAL CHANNELS;

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EID: 84883463399     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50825     Document Type: Article

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