Termini of calving glaciers as self-organized critical systems

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 874-878

  Astrom J A ^a   Vallot, D ^b   Schafer M ^c,d   Welty, E Z ^e   O'Neel, S ^e,f   Bartholomaus, T C ^g   Liu, Yan ^h   Riikila T I ⁱ   Zwinger, T ^a   Timonen, J ^i,j   Moore, J C ^b,c,h  

^a IT Center for Science   (Finland)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

^d FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^h BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^j ITMO UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE; BRITTLE FRACTURE; CLIMATE FORCING; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; GLACIER RETREAT; ICE SHEET; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SELF ORGANIZATION; TIDEWATER GLACIER;

ALASKA; ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; GREENLAND; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; UNITED STATES;

ABELIA;

EID: 84925304038     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2290     Document Type: Article

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