Observational evidence of recent change in the northern high-latitude environment

Climatic Change

Volumn 46, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 159-207

  Serreze, M C ^a   Walsh, J E ^b   Chapin III, F S ^c   Osterkamp, T ^c   Dyurgerov, M ^a   Romanovsky, V ^c   Oechel, W C ^d   Morison, J ^e   Zhang, T ^a   Barry, R G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; GLOBAL CHANGE; SEA ICE; VEGETATION COVER; WARMING;

ARCTIC;

EID: 0033946736     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1005504031923     Document Type: Article

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