Alpine proglacial suspended sediment dynamics in warm and cool ablation seasons: Implications for global warming

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 332, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 259-270

  Stott, Tim ^a   Mount, Nick ^b  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alpine; Global warming; Proglacial; Suspended sediment load

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; CLIMATOLOGY; ECOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; SEDIMENTS;

ALPINE; PROGLACIAL; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT LOAD;

GLACIERS;

ABLATION; CLIMATOLOGY; ECOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; GLOBAL WARMING; SEDIMENTS;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUSPENDED LOAD; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

ALPS; DAUPHINE ALPS; ECRINS MASSIF; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN ALPS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33845710366     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2006.07.001     Document Type: Article

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