Influence of ice-sheet geometry and supraglacial lakes on seasonal ice-flow variability

Cryosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1185-1192

  Joughin, I ^a   Das, S B ^b   Flowers, G E ^c   Behn, M D ^b   Alley, R B ^d   King, M A ^e,f   Smith, B E ^a   Bamber, J L ^g   Van Den Broeke, M R ^h   Van Angelen, J H ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^f NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^h UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DRAINAGE; GEOMETRY; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; ICE FLOW; ICE SHEET; MELTWATER; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; TOPOGRAPHY; VELOCITY; WATER FLOW;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84887389239     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-7-1185-2013     Document Type: Article

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