Modeled patterns of Late Pleistocene glacier inception and growth in the Southern and Central Rocky Mountains, USA: sensitivity to climate change and paleoclimatic implications

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 17-18, 2007, Pages 2152-2166

  Leonard, Eric ^a  

^a University of Colorado College of Nursing   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); THERMAL GRADIENTS;

CENTRAL ROCKY MOUNTAINS; COLORADO; SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS; WYOMING;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GIS; GLACIATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATE GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

COLORADO; LAKE BONNEVILLE; NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UINTA MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; UTAH; WASATCH RANGE; WIND RIVER RANGE; WYOMING;

EID: 35549005507     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.02.013     Document Type: Article

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