Mountain glaciers: Recorders of atmospheric water vapor content?

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 589-597

  Broecker, Wallace S ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOUR; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; GLACIAL ATMOSPHERE; MOUNTAIN GLACIER; TROPICAL MOUNTAIN;

PERU, HUASCARAN MOUNTAIN;

EID: 0031431731     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: 19449224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GB02267     Document Type: Article

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