Greenland ice sheet annual motion insensitive to spatial variations in subglacial hydraulic structure

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 8910-8917

  Tedstone, A J ^a   Nienow, P W ^a   Gourmelen, N ^a   Sole, A J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cryospheric remote sensing; Global Positioning Systems; Ice sheet dynamics; Ice sheet hydrology

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; REMOTE SENSING; TRACKING (POSITION);

GREENLAND ICE SHEET; ICE SHEET; ICE SHEET DYNAMICS; ICE SHEET MODELS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SUBGLACIAL HYDROLOGY;

ICE;

ANNUAL CYCLE; CRYOSPHERE; DRAINAGE NETWORK; GIS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURE; ICE MOVEMENT; LAND EVALUATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; TANDEM-X; TERRASAR-X;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84921881401     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062386     Document Type: Article

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