Four-decade record of pervasive grounding line retreat along the Bellingshausen margin of West Antarctica

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 5741-5749

  Christie, Frazer D W ^a   Bingham, Robert G ^a   Gourmelen, Noel ^a   Tett, Simon F B ^a   Muto, Atsuhiro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Temple University   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; grounding line; ice ocean interaction; InSAR; Landsat; Pine Island Glacier

Indexed keywords

SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL;

ANTARCTICA; GROUNDING LINE; ICE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; INSAR; LANDSAT; PINE ISLAND GLACIERS;

ICE;

EID: 84973489683     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL068972     Document Type: Letter

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