Lidar snow cover studies on glaciers in the Ötztal Alps (Austria): Comparison with snow depths calculated from GPR measurements

Cryosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 41-57

  Helfricht, K ^a,b   Kuhn, M ^b   Keuschnig, M ^a,c   Heilig, A ^d,e  

^a AlpS Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Technologies   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^d BAVARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CALIBRATION; ELEVATION; FIRN; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; ICE FLOW; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LASER; LIDAR; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW COVER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TERRAIN; WATER STORAGE;

ALPS; AUSTRIA; CENTRAL ALPS; OTZTAL ALPS;

EID: 84891881550     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-8-41-2014     Document Type: Article

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