Temperature change is the major driver of late-glacial and Holocene glacier fluctuations in New Zealand

Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 121-124

  Anderson, Brian ^a   Mackintosh, Andrew ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Glaciers; Little Ice Age; New Zealand; Southern Hemisphere; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

LITTLE ICE AGE; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); THERMAL EFFECTS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

GLACIER DYNAMICS; HOLOCENE; LATE GLACIAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 32244432559     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G22151.1     Document Type: Article

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