Ice stream or not? Radio-echo sounding of Carlson Inlet, West Antarctica
The Antarctic Ice Sheet loses mass to the surrounding ocean mainly by drainage through a network of ice streams: fast-flowing glaciers bounded on either side by ice flowing one or two orders of magnitude more slowly. Ice streams flow despite low driving stress because of low basal resistance but are...
Published in: | The Cryosphere |
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Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2011
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-5-907-2011 https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00026654 https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00026609/tc-5-907-2011.pdf https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/5/907/2011/tc-5-907-2011.pdf |