The variability of tidewater-glacier calving: Origin of event-size and interval distributions

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 60, Issue 222, 2014, Pages 622-634

  Chapuis, Anne ^a   Tetzlaff, Tom ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b Jülich Research Centre   (Germany)

Author keywords

Avalanches; Glacier modelling; Iceberg calving

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE; GLACIER RETREAT; ICEBERG CALVING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TIDEWATER GLACIER;

EID: 84909990673     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/2014JoG13J215     Document Type: Article

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