The length of the world's glaciers a new approach for the global calculation of center lines

Cryosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1741-1755

  MacHguth, H ^a   Huss, M ^b,c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; GLACIOLOGY;

ALASKA; ARCTIC; BERING GLACIER; CANADA; EAST GREENLAND; GREENLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84907451668     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-8-1741-2014     Document Type: Article

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