Modeling future glacier mass balance and volume changes using ERA-40 reanalysis and climate models: A sensitivity study at Storglaciären, Sweden

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Radić, Valentina ^a   Hock, Regine ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALLEY GLACIER; VOLUME CHANGE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORRBOTTEN; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; STORGLACIAREN; SWEDEN;

EID: 34147132992     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JF000440     Document Type: Article

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