Internal and basal ice changes near the grounding line derived from radio-echo sounding
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Radio Echo Sounding of the Greenland Inland Ice
Radio echo sounding has been used for a number of years in the exploration of polar ice such as the inland ice in Greenland and Antarc tica. By means of this technique a number of important glaciological and geophysical parameters may be deter mined. Examples are ice thickness, bedrock topography and structure, stratification patterns which are used for climate and flow patterns studies, and ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Glaciology
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0022-1430,1727-5652
DOI: 10.1017/s0022143000030562