Significant groundwater contribution to Antarctic ice streams hydrologic budget

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2003-2010

  Christoffersen, Poul ^a   Bougamont, Marion ^a   Carter, Sasha P ^b   Fricker, Helen A ^b   Tulaczyk, Slawek ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

groundwater; hydrology; Ice sheet; Ice stream; subglacial processes

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; MELTING; RESERVOIRS (WATER);

ANTARCTIC ICE STREAM; HYDROLOGIC BUDGETS; HYDROLOGIC SYSTEMS; ICE SHEET; ICE STREAMS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SUBGLACIAL LAKES; SUBGLACIAL PROCESS;

ICE;

GROUNDWATER FLOW; ICE SHEET; ICE STREAM; MELTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECHARGE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; WATER BUDGET;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84896589093     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059250     Document Type: Article

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