Elevation change of the Greenland ice sheet due to surface mass balance and firn processes, 1960-2013

Cryosphere Discussions

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 3541-3580

  Kuipers Munneke, P ^a,b   Ligtenberg, S R M ^a   Noel B P Y ^a   Howat, I M ^c   Box, J E ^d   Mosley Thompson, E ^c,e   McConnell, J R ^f   Steffen, K ^g   Harper, J T ^h   Das, S B ⁱ   Van Den Broeke, M R ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

ⁱ WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ALTIMETRY; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPACTION; ELEVATION; FIRN; ICE SHEET; MASS BALANCE; MELTWATER; PERCOLATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 84979898663     PISSN: 19940432     EISSN: 19940440     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tcd-9-3541-2015     Document Type: Article

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