A moving-point approach to model shallow ice sheets: A study case with radially symmetrical ice sheets

Cryosphere

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-14

  Bonan, B ^a   Baines, M J ^a   Nichols, N K ^a   Partridge, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GROUNDING LINE; ICE SHEET; NUMERICAL MODEL; SYMMETRY;

EID: 85028823968     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-10-1-2016     Document Type: Article

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