Break-up dates of Alpine lakes as proxy data for local and regional mean surface air temperatures

Climatic Change

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 407-439

  Livingstone, David M ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ICE BREAKUP; LAKE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SYNOPTIC SCALE EVENT; TREND; VOLCANIC AEROSOL;

SWITZERLAND, ALPS, LEJDA SAN MUREZZAN;

EID: 0030845669     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005371925924     Document Type: Article

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