Persistent flow acceleration within the interior of the Greenland ice sheet

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 899-905

  Doyle, Samuel H ^a   Hubbard, Alun ^a   Fitzpatrick, Andrew A W ^a   Van As, Dirk ^b   Mikkelsen, Andreas B ^c   Pettersson, Rickard ^d   Hubbard, Bryn ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Global Positioning System; Greenland Ice Sheet; Ice sheet dynamics

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; GLACIERS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LAKES;

ABLATION AREA; EQUILIBRIUM LINE ALTITUDES; FLOW ACCELERATION; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; ICE FLOW; ICE MOTION; ICE SHEET DYNAMICS; KEYPOINTS;

ICE;

ABLATION; ACCELERATION; DRAINAGE; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; GEOACCUMULATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MELTING; VELOCITY;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84893866282     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058933     Document Type: Article

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