InSAR observations and models of crustal deformation due to a glacial surge in Iceland

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 198, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1329-1341

  Auriac, A ^a,e   Sigmundsson F , ^a   Hooper A , ^b   Spaans, K H ^b   Bjornsson H ^a   Palsson F ^a   Pinel V , ^c   Feigl, K L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glaciology; Numerical solutions; Probability distributions; Radar interferometry

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORMATION; ELASTIC MODULI; POISSON RATIO; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SNOW; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BAYESIAN APPROACHES; CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING; GLACIOLOGY; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; VISCOELASTIC DEFORMATION;

LOADING;

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GLACIOLOGY; ICE CAP; POISSON RATIO; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VISCOELASTICITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

ICELAND; VATNAJOKULL;

EID: 84905171067     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggu205     Document Type: Article

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