Mass, Volume and Velocity of the Antarctic Ice Sheet: Present-Day Changes and Error Effects

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1481-1505

  Groh, A ^a   Ewert, H ^a   Rosenau, R ^a   Fagiolini, E ^b   Gruber, C ^b   Floricioiu, D ^b   Abdel Jaber, W ^b   Linow, S ^c   Flechtner, F ^b   Eineder, M ^b   Dierking, W ^c   Dietrich, R ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accumulation; Antarctic ice sheet; Mass balance; Velocity

Indexed keywords

GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; GRAVITATION; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VELOCITY;

ACCUMULATION; ANTARCTIC ICE SHEETS; GLACIAL ISOSTATIC ADJUSTMENTS; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; HIGH RESOLUTION SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; LAND ELEVATION SATELLITES; MASS BALANCE; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING;

ICE;

EID: 84927123280     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: 15730956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-014-9286-y     Document Type: Article

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