Climate change and its impacts on glaciers and permafrost in the Alps

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Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 258-265

  Haeberli, Wilfried ^a,b   Beniston, Martin ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b World Glacier Monitoring Service Intl Commission on Snow and Ice

^c Climate Impacts Working Group Intergovl Panel on Climate Change

^d UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIER RETREAT; PERMAFROST;

ALPS; EUROPE;

EID: 0031820891     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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