Transition of flow regime along a marine-terminating outlet glacier in East Antarctica

Cryosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 867-875

  Callens, D ^a   Matsuoka, K ^b   Steinhage, D ^c   Smith, B ^d   Witrant, E ^a,e   Pattyn, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e GIPSA LAB   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SURVEY; BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; FLOW PATTERN; GLACIER RETREAT; ICE FLOW; ICE THICKNESS; RADAR; SEA LEVEL; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; QUEEN MAUD LAND; SHIRASE GLACIER;

EID: 84901434352     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-8-867-2014     Document Type: Article

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