Ephemeral grounding as a signal of ice-shelf change

Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) observations of ice-shelf tidal deformation reveal the wide transition between grounded and floating ice as well as local areas where the ice shelf is only grounded at low tide, a condition that we call ephemeral grounding. Ephemeral grounding creates...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Schmeltz, M, Rignot, E, MacAyeal, DR
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: eScholarship, University of California 2001
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Online Access:https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2q0462j8