Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-681-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-681-2017
Research article
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08 Mar 2017
Research article |  | 08 Mar 2017

Assessment of NASA airborne laser altimetry data using ground-based GPS data near Summit Station, Greenland

Kelly M. Brunt, Robert L. Hawley, Eric R. Lutz, Michael Studinger, John G. Sonntag, Michelle A. Hofton, Lauren C. Andrews, and Thomas A. Neumann

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