Evidence from ice shelves for channelized meltwater flow beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 945-948

  Le Brocq, Anne M ^a   Ross, Neil ^b   Griggs, Jennifer A ^c   Bingham, Robert G ^d   Corr, Hugh F J ^e   Ferraccioli, Fausto ^e   Jenkins, Adrian ^e   Jordan, Tom A ^e   Payne, Antony J ^c   Rippin, David M ^f   Siegert, Martin J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE FLOW; ICE SHEET; ICE SHELF; ICE STREAM; MELTING; MELTWATER; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OUTFLOW; RADAR; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84887128086     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1977     Document Type: Article

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