Energy balance estimates during the summer season of glaciers of the Antarctic Peninsula

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 22, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 117-130

  Schneider, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antarctic peninsula; Climate change; Glaciers

Indexed keywords

ENERGY BALANCE; GLACIER; MASS BALANCE; SUMMER;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0033428570     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(99)00030-2     Document Type: Article

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