Grounding line retreat of Pope, Smith, and Kohler Glaciers, West Antarctica, measured with Sentinel-1a radar interferometry data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 16, 2016, Pages 8572-8579

  Scheuchl, B ^a   Mouginot, J ^a   Rignot, E ^a,b   Morlighem, M ^a   Khazendar, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Grounding Line; Sentinel 1; Synthetic Aperture Radar

Indexed keywords

GEODETIC SATELLITES; INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EARTH REMOTE SENSING; GLACIER RETREAT; GROUNDING LINE; PINNING POINTS; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY DATA; SENTINEL-1; WEST ANTARCTICA;

ICE;

GLACIER RETREAT; GROUNDING LINE; ICE MECHANICS; ICE SHELF; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SENTINEL; SIGNAL; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ANTARCTICA; KOHLER GLACIER; POPE GLACIER; SMITH GLACIER; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84983681742     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL069287     Document Type: Article

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