Recent accumulation variability in northwest Greenland from ground-penetrating radar and shallow cores along the Greenland Inland Traverse

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 60, Issue 220, 2014, Pages 375-382

  Hawley, Robert L ^a   Courville, Zoe R ^b   Kehrl, Laura M ^a   Lutz, Eric R ^a   Osterberg, Erich C ^a   Overly, Thomas B ^a   Wong, Gifford J ^a  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^b Engineer Research and Development Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Accumulation; Ground penetrating radar; Ice sheet mass balance; Polar firn

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; GLACIOLOGY; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; ICE CORE; ICE SHEET; POLAR FRONT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; SUMMIT; THULE;

EID: 84903138675     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/2014JoG13J141     Document Type: Article

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