Glaciers in Equilibrium, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

Authors

Andrew G. Fountain, Portland State UniversityFollow
Hassan J. Basagic, Portland State UniversityFollow
Spencer Niebuhr, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Sponsor

This research was funded by McMurdo LTER NSF OPP grant 1115245.

Published In

Journal of Glaciology

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-2016

Subjects

McMurdo Dry Valleys (Antarctica), Glaciers -- Antarctica -- McMurdo Dry Valleys, Meltwater -- Antarctica -- McMurdo Dry Valleys

Abstract

The McMurdo Dry Valleys are a cold, dry polar desert and the alpine glaciers therein exhibit small annual and seasonal mass balances, often

Description

COPYRIGHT: © The Author(s) 2016 This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Originally published in the Journal of Glaciology and can be found online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jog.2016.86

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jog.2016.86

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/18270

Citation Details

FOUNTAIN, A.G., BASAGIC, H.J. and NIEBUHR, S. (2016) Glaciers in equilibrium, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, Journal of Glaciology, pp. 1–14.