Disappearance of an Alpine glacier over the 21st Century simulated from modeling its future surface mass balance

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 261, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 367-374

  Le Meur, E ^a   Gerbaux, M ^a   Schafer M ^a   Vincent, C ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

climate; glacier; ice dynamics; mass balance; meteorology; modeling

Indexed keywords

DEGLACIATION; FLOW DYNAMICS; MASS BALANCE;

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMICS; GLACIERS; ICE;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

DEGLACIATION; FLOW MODELING; ICE FLOW; INTERPOLATION; MASS BALANCE; MODELING; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; VALLEY GLACIER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; RHONE-ALPES; SAINT SORLIN GLACIER; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34548488927     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.07.022     Document Type: Article

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