Identification of snow ablation rate, ELA, AAR and net mass balance using transient snowline variations on two arctic glaciers

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 59, Issue 216, 2013, Pages 649-659

  Mernild, Sebastian H ^a,b   Pelto, Mauri ^c   Malmros, Jeppe K ^b   Yde, Jacob C ^d   Knudsen, Niels T ^e   Hanna, Edward ^f  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS CIENTÍFICOS CECS   (Chile)

^c Nichols College   (United States)

^d WESTERN NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; GLACIER DYNAMICS; LANDSAT; MASS BALANCE; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW COVER; SNOWLINE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ALASKA; AMMASSALIK ISLAND; ARCTIC; GREENLAND; MITTIVAKKAT GLACIER; UNITED STATES;

CITRUS LIMON;

EID: 84885441660     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/2013JoG12J221     Document Type: Article

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