A ten-year record of supraglacial lake evolution and rapid drainage in West Greenland using an automated processing algorithm for multispectral imagery

Cryosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1869-1877

  Morriss, B F ^a   Hawley, R L ^a   Chipman, J W ^a   Andrews, L C ^b   Catania, G A ^b   Hoffman, M J ^c   Luthi M P ^d   Neumann, T A ^e  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; GLACIER FLOW; GPS; ICE FLOW; LAKE EVOLUTION; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MELTWATER; MODIS; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; WEST GREENLAND;

EID: 84890476991     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-7-1869-2013     Document Type: Article

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