Glacier mass balance and ice-core records from northern Sweden

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Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 266-269

  Holmlund, Per ^a,b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Tarfala Research Station

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; ICE CORE; PALEOCLIMATE;

SWEDEN;

EID: 0031847516     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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33. Acknowledgements. The programs on which this paper is based were financed by the Swedish Natural Science Research Council (NFR) and The Environment and Space Research Institute (MRI). Thanks also to Rickard Pettersson for his support in preparing data from Mårmaglaciaren, and a special thanks to Anna Schytt for all her help in interpreting and compiling messages from the Antarctic continent where I was on field-work during the final phase of writing the paper