The effect of landscape and retreating glaciers on wind erosion in south Iceland

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 177-187

  Gisladottir, Fanney O ^a   Arnalds, O ^a   Gisladottir, G ^b  

^a Agricultural Research Institute Reykjavik   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Aeolian processes; Glaciers; Global warming; Iceland; Land degradation; Topography; Wind erosion

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EROSION; GLACIERS; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGY; SAND; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VEGETATION; WIND EFFECTS;

AEOLIAN PROCESSES; LANDSCAPES; MACRO TOPOGRAPHY; WIND EROSION;

LAND USE;

EOLIAN PROCESS; GLACIER DYNAMICS; TOPOGRAPHY; WIND EROSION;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; ICELAND; WORLD;

EID: 17244371313     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.645     Document Type: Article

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