Stikine Icefield Mass Loss Between 2000 and 2013/2014

We calculate thinning rates ( frac dh dt ) at the 5,800kmtextsuperscript 2 Stikine Icefield of southeast Alaska fromstacked digital elevation models (DEMs) acquired between 2000 and2013/2014, and glacier velocities between 1985 and 2014 from featuretracking on optical image pairs. We find a mass...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Andrew K. Melkonian, Michael J. Willis, Matt Pritchard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Earth Science
Subjects:
DEM
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/feart.2016.00089/full