Heat sources within the Greenland Ice Sheet: Dissipation, temperate paleo-firn and cryo-hydrologic warming

Cryosphere

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 245-253

  Luthi M P ^a,g   Ryser, C ^a   Andrews, L C ^b,c   Catania, G A ^b,c   Funk, M ^a   Hawley, R L ^d   Hoffman, M J ^e   Neumann, T A ^f  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d Dept of Earth Sciences Dartmouth College ^*  (United States)

^e LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREVASSE; FIRN; HEAT FLOW; HEAT FLUX; ICE SHEET; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLEISTOCENE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 84922559843     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-9-245-2015     Document Type: Article

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