Global warming and active-layer thickness: Results from transient general circulation models

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 15, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 61-77

  Anisimov, Oleg A ^a   Shiklomanov, Nikolai I ^b   Nelson, Frederick E ^b  

^a STATE HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Active layer; Arctic region; Climate change; Frost action; Global warming; Permafrost

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GCM; GLOBAL WARMING; PERMAFROST; THERMAL REGIME;

EID: 0030656321     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(97)00009-X     Document Type: Article

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