(Un)frozen in time

Science

Volumn 299, Issue 5613, 2003, Pages 1673-1675

  Nelson, Frederick E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THAWING; TIME;

ARTIFACT; CANADA; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COOLING; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY BALANCE; FREEZING; GEOCRYOLOGY; GEOGRAPHY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; LITERATURE; PERMAFROST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; THICKNESS; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037436547     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1081111     Document Type: Review

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19. Supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation. The views expressed in this paper do not necessarily reflect those of NSF. The figure was compiled by N. I. Shiklomanov, University of Delaware. Thanks to O. Anisimov, J. Brown, K. Hinkel, N. Shiklomanov, and M. Wilder for suggestions.