Radio Echo Sounding on a Valley Glacier in East Greenland

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Davis, J. L., Halliday, J. S., Miller, K. J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1973
• Subjects: Earth-Surface Processes; Arctic; Antarctic; Greenland; Stauning Alper; Antarc*; East Greenland; glacier; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022143000022723; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022143000022723

Abstract Although radio echo sounding equipment has been used with success for measuring the thickness of ice sheets in the Arctic and Antarctic, a valley glacier poses the additional problems of echoes from the valley walls, which may obscure the bottom echoes, and a high attenuation of radio waves...