Small mountain glacier shrinkage at the century time-scale: an example in the French western Alps;Retrait séculaire des glaciers locaux de montagne : un exemple dans les Alpes occidentales françaises

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 339, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 449-459

  Deroin, Jean Paul ^a   Condom, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GUSTAVE EIFFEL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX MONTAIGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Belledonne; France; Glacier; Global climate change; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; ICE RETREAT; REMOTE SENSING; SHRINKAGE; TIMESCALE; VALLEY GLACIER;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN ALPS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34547595632     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2007.05.002     Document Type: Article

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