Surface speed and frontal ablation of Kronebreen and Kongsbreen, NW Svalbard, from SAR offset tracking

Cryosphere

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2339-2355

  Schellenberger, T ^a   Dunse, T ^a   Kaab A ^a   Kohler, J ^b   Reijmer, C H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; GLACIER FLOW; ICE FLOW; ICEBERG CALVING; RADARSAT; SATELLITE DATA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC; KONGSBREEN; KRONEBREEN; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 84950111838     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-9-2339-2015     Document Type: Article

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