Secular glacier mass balances derived from cumulative glacier length changes

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 295-306

  Hoelzle, M ^a,b   Haeberli, W ^a   Dischl, M ^a   Peschke, W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate change; Glacier fluctuations; Glacier length changes; Glacier mass changes

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; SECULAR VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037402445     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(02)00223-0     Document Type: Article

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