Wintertime storage of water in buried supraglacial lakes across the Greenland Ice Sheet

Cryosphere

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1333-1342

  Koenig, L S ^a,g   Lampkin, D J ^b   Montgomery, L N ^b   Hamilton, S L ^c   Turrin, J B ^d   Joseph, C A ^b   Moutsafa, S E ^e   Panzer, B ^f   Casey, K A ^a,b   Paden, J D ^f   Leuschen, C ^f   Gogineni, P ^f  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c BOWDOIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^e RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SENSING; COLOR; GLACIAL LAKE; ICE SHEET; MELTWATER; RADAR; WATER STORAGE; WINTER;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84937043904     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-9-1333-2015     Document Type: Article

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