Mountain permafrost in Japan: Distribution, landforms and thermal regimes

Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, Supplementband

Volumn 130, Issue , 2003, Pages 99-116

  Ishikawa, Mamoru ^a   Fukui, Kotaro ^a,c   Aoyama, Masafumi ^a,c   Ikeda, Atsushi ^a,d   Sawada, Yuki ^a,b   Matsuoka, Norikazu ^a,d  

^a Frontier Observational Research System for Global Change ^*  (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRQUE; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; MOUNTAIN REGION; PERMAFROST; ROCK GLACIER; SNOW COVER;

ASIA; CHUBU; DAISETSU MOUNTAINS; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HOKKAIDO; HONSHU; JAPAN; MOUNT FUJI;

EID: 23144449721     PISSN: 00442798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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