Good for glaciers, bad for people? Archaeologically relevant climate models developed from reconstructions of glacier mass balance

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1763-1773

  Casely, Andrew F ^a   Dugmore, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glaciers; Landscape change; Modelling; Settlement change; Snowcover; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; EQUILIBRIUM LINE; GLACIER; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MEDIEVAL; MODELING; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SETTLEMENT HISTORY; SNOW COVER; SNOWLINE; VEGETATION;

ARCTIC; ICELAND;

EID: 34548753916     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2006.12.014     Document Type: Article

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