Tasman Glacier, New Zealand: 20th-century thinning and predicted calving retreat

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 22, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 11-28

  Kirkbride, Martin P ^a   Warren, Charles R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glacier calving; New Zealand; Supraglacial debris

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; GLACIER; MASS BALANCE;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0033428971     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(99)00021-1     Document Type: Article

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