Greenland annual accumulation along the EGIG line, 1959-2004, from ASIRAS airborne radar and neutron-probe density measurements

Cryosphere

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1679-1694

  Overly, Thomas B ^a   Hawley, Robert L ^a   Helm, Veit ^c   Morris, Elizabeth M ^b   Chaudhary, Rohan N ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; AIRBORNE SENSOR; ALTIMETER; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE MODELING; ELEVATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; ICE SHEET; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; NEUTRON PROBE; RADAR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SNOW ACCUMULATION;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 84982672417     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-10-1679-2016     Document Type: Article

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