Height changes over subglacial Lake Vostok, East Antarctica: Insights from GNSS observations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 119, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2460-2480

  Richter, Andreas ^a   Popov, Sergey V ^b   Fritsche, Mathias ^a   Lukin, Valery V ^c   Matveev, Alexey Yu ^d   Ekaykin, Alexey A ^c   Lipenkov, Vladimir Ya ^c   Fedorov, Denis V ^d   Eberlein, Lutz ^a   Schröder, Ludwig ^a   Ewert, Heiko ^a   Horwath, Martin ^a   Dietrich, Reinhard ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Polar Marine Geosurvey Expedition   (Russian Federation)

^c ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d OAO Aerogeodeziya   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; GLACIAL LAKE; GNSS; ICE SHEET; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; LAKE VOSTOK;

EID: 84918513429     PISSN: 21699003     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JF003228     Document Type: Article

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