Widespread, rapid grounding line retreat of Pine Island, Thwaites, Smith, and Kohler glaciers, West Antarctica, from 1992 to 2011

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3502-3509

  Rignot, E ^a,b   Mouginot, J ^a   Morlighem, M ^a   Seroussi, H ^b   Scheuchl, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; glacier dynamics; interferometry; marine instability; mass balance

Indexed keywords

GEODETIC SATELLITES; INTERFEROMETRY;

AMUNDSEN SEA SECTORS; ANTARCTICA; EARTH REMOTE SENSING; GLACIER DYNAMICS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; MASS BALANCE; PINE ISLAND GLACIERS; SATELLITE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY;

ICE;

GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; GLACIER RETREAT; GLACIOLOGY; GROUNDING LINE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY;

AMUNDSEN SEA; ANTARCTICA; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; KOHLER GLACIER; PINE ISLAND; SMITH GLACIER; SOUTHERN OCEAN; THWAITES GLACIER; UNITED STATES; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84901087558     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060140     Document Type: Article

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