Briksdalsbreen in western Norway: AD 1900-2004 frontal fluctuations as a combined effect of variations in winter precipitation and summer temperature

Holocene

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1245-1252

  Nesje, Atle ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Briksdalsbreen; Climate change; Glacier variation; North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO); Western Norway

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE;

BRIKSDALSBREEN; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; SOGN OG FJORDANE;

EID: 29244450183     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683605hl897rr     Document Type: Article

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