Glacier velocities and dynamic ice discharge from the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Nunavut, Canada

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 484-490

  Van Wychen, Wesley ^a,b   Burgess, David O ^b   Gray, Laurence ^a   Copland, Luke ^a   Sharp, Martin ^c   Dowdeswell, Julian A ^d   Benham, Toby J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

dynamic ice discharge; glacier dynamics; speckle tracking

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CANADIAN ARCTIC ARCHIPELAGO; GLACIER DYNAMICS; ICE DISCHARGES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS; SPECKLE TRACKING; SURFACE VELOCITY;

ICE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DISCHARGE; GLACIAL TRANSPORT; ICE FLOW; ICE MOVEMENT; MASS TRANSFER;

ARCTIC OCEAN; CANADA; QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS;

EID: 84892734637     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058558     Document Type: Article

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