Sustained increase in ice discharge from the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica, from 1973 to 2013

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1576-1584

  Mouginot, J ^a   Rignot, E ^a,b   Scheuchl, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

ice dynamic; ice flux; West Antarctica

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

FEATURE-TRACKING; ICE DISCHARGES; ICE DYNAMICS; ICE-FLOW MODELS; MEASUREMENTS OF; PINE ISLAND GLACIERS; SATELLITE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; WEST ANTARCTICA;

ICE;

ADVECTION; FLOW VELOCITY; GLACIOLOGY; ICE FLOW; ICE SHEET; ICE THICKNESS; LANDSAT; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SEA ICE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AMUNDSEN SEA; ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84895155462     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL059069     Document Type: Article

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