Distinct patterns of seasonal Greenland glacier velocity

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 7209-7216

  Moon, Twila ^a,b   Joughin, Ian ^a   Smith, Ben ^a   Van Den Broeke, Michiel R ^c   Van De Berg, Willem Jan ^c   Noël, Brice ^c   Usher, Mika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Greenland; interferometric synthetic aperture radar; meltwater; seasonal velocity; subglacial drainage; terminus

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; GLACIERS; HYDROGEOLOGY; ICE CONTROL; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

CONTROL MECHANISM; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; MELTWATER; SUBGLACIAL MELTWATER; TERMINUS; VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS;

ICE;

DRAINAGE; ICE SHEET; MELTWATER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84911417711     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061836     Document Type: Article

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