Ice flow dynamics and mass loss of Totten Glacier, East Antarctica, from 1989 to 2015

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 6366-6373

  Li, Xin ^a   Rignot, Eric ^a,b   Mouginot, Jeremie ^a   Scheuchl, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; ice discharge; mass budget; remote sensing; sea level; Totten Glacier

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE MODELS; DYNAMICS; REMOTE SENSING; SEA LEVEL; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ANTARCTICA; ATMOSPHERIC CLIMATE; ICE DISCHARGES; ICE FLOW DYNAMICS; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; MASS BUDGET; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY DATA; SURFACE MASS BALANCE;

ICE;

CLIMATE MODELING; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; ICE FLOW; ICE THICKNESS; LANDSAT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SEA LEVEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; EAST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84978209172     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL069173     Document Type: Article

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