Ice dynamic response to two modes of surface lake drainage on the Greenland ice sheet

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Tedesco, Marco ^a   Willis, Ian C ^b   Hoffman, Matthew J ^c   Banwell, Alison F ^b   Alexander, Patrick ^a   Arnold, Neil S ^b  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC RESPONSE; GLACIERS; LAKES;

DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; GLOBAL POSITIONING; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; HYDRO-FRACTURING; ICE DYNAMICS; ICE FLOW; ICE VELOCITY;

ICE;

FRACTURE FLOW; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; GLACIAL LAKE; GPS; ICE FLOW; ICE SHEET; UPLIFT;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84885637396     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/034007     Document Type: Article

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