The sensitivity of flowline models of tidewater glaciers to parameter uncertainty

Cryosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1579-1590

  Enderlin, E M ^a,b   Howat, I M ^a,b   Vieli, A ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM FRICTION; CRYOSPHERE; FLOW MODELING; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER RETREAT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; ICE FLOW; ICE MECHANICS; ICEBERG CALVING; PARAMETERIZATION; RHEOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TIDEWATER GLACIER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84885440527     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-7-1579-2013     Document Type: Article

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