Instruments and Methods A new semi-automatic approach for dividing glacier complexes into individual glaciers

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 59, Issue 217, 2013, Pages 925-937

  Kienholz, Christian ^a   Hock, Regine ^a,b   Arendt, Anthony A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLOW FIELD; FLOW MODELING; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER FLOW; GLACIOLOGY; ICE COVER; ICE FIELD; MODEL VALIDATION; PARAMETERIZATION;

ALASKA; JUNEAU ICEFIELD; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84891438868     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/2013JoG12J138     Document Type: Article

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