Quantifying the mass balance of ice caps on Severnaya Zemlya, Russian High Arctic. I: Climate and mass balance of the Vavilov Ice Cap

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-12

  Bassford, R P ^a   Siegert, M J ^a   Dowdeswell, J A ^b   Oerlemans, J ^c   Glazovsky, A F ^d   Macheret, Y Y ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE CAP; MASS BALANCE;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA; TAYMYR;

EID: 33244496903     PISSN: 15230430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1657/1523-0430(2006)038[0001:QTMBOI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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