How accurate are estimates of glacier ice thickness? Results from ITMIX, the Ice Thickness Models Intercomparison eXperiment

Cryosphere

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 949-970

  Farinotti, Daniel ^a,b   Brinkerhoff, Douglas J ^c   Clarke, Garry K C ^d   Fürst, Johannes J ^e   Frey, Holger ^f   Gantayat, Prateek ^g   Gillet Chaulet, Fabien ^h   Girard, Claire ⁱ   Huss, Matthias ^a,j   Leclercq, Paul W ^k   Linsbauer, Andreas ^f,j   Machguth, Horst ^f,j   Martin, Carlos ^l   Maussion, Fabien ^m   Morlighem, Mathieu ⁱ   Mosbeux, Cyrille ^h   Pandit, Ankur ⁿ   Portmann, Andrea ^b   Rabatel, Antoine ^h   Ramsankaran, Raaj ⁿ   Reerink, Thomas J ^o   Sanchez, Olivier ^h   Stentoft, Peter A ^p   Singh Kumari, Sangita ⁿ   Van Pelt, Ward J J ^q   Anderson, Brian ^r   Benham, Toby ^s   Binder, Daniel ^t   Dowdeswell, Julian A ^s   Fischer, Andrea ^u   Helfricht, Kay ^u   Kutuzov, Stanislav ^v   Lavrentiev, Ivan ^v   McNabb, Robert ^c,k   Hilmar Gudmundsson, G ^l   Li, Huilin ^w   Andreassen, Liss M ^x   more..

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^g INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^h UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^k UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^l BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^m UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

ⁿ INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^o UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^p TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^q UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^r VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^s UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^t ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

^u ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^v INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^w INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^x NORWEGIAN WATER RESOURCES AND ENERGY DIRECTORATE   (Norway)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA QUALITY; DATA SET; GLACIER; ICE CAP; ICE THICKNESS; MASS BALANCE; MODEL VALIDATION;

EID: 85018519738     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-11-949-2017     Document Type: Article

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