Articles | Volume 9, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-675-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-675-2015
Research article
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13 Apr 2015
Research article |  | 13 Apr 2015

Thermal structure and basal sliding parametrisation at Pine Island Glacier – a 3-D full-Stokes model study

N. Wilkens, J. Behrens, T. Kleiner, D. Rippin, M. Rückamp, and A. Humbert

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