On the mass balance of low latitude glaciers with particular consideration of the Peruvian Cordillera Blanca

Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 643-651

  Käser, Georg ^a   Georges, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Glacier mass balance; Low latitudes; Methods

Indexed keywords

GLACIER DYNAMICS; LATITUDE; MASS BALANCE;

CORDILLERA BLANCA; PERU;

EID: 0033509006     PISSN: 04353676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0435-3676.1999.00092.x     Document Type: Article

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