Bed roughness beneath the Greenland ice sheet

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 59, Issue 216, 2013, Pages 724-732

  Rippin, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BED ROUGHNESS; GLACIER DYNAMICS; ICE FLOW; ICE MARGIN; ICE SHEET; ICE STREAM; MARINE SEDIMENT;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; PETERMANN GLACIER;

EID: 84885448970     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/2013JoG12J212     Document Type: Article

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