Northern hemisphere teleconnection indices and the mass balance of Svalbard glaciers

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 473-487

  Washington, Richard ^a   Hodson, Andrew ^b   Isaksson, Elisabeth ^c   Macdonald, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic; El Nino Southern Oscillation; Glaciers; Mass balance; Northern Hemisphere teleconnections; Pacific North American; Svalbard; Tropical Northern Hemisphere

Indexed keywords

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; TELECONNECTION;

SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 0034087547     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0088(200004)20:5<473::AID-JOC506>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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