Subglacial roughness of the former Barents Sea ice sheet

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2546-2556

  Gudlaugsson, E ^a   Humbert, A ^b   Winsborrow, M ^c   Andreassen, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Barents Sea ice sheet; spectral roughness; subglacial topography

Indexed keywords

GLACIER; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; ICE SHEET; ICE STREAM; ROUGHNESS; SEISMIC SURVEY; SLIDING; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84893011957     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JF002714     Document Type: Article

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