A brief consideration of climate forcing factors in view of the Holocene glacier record

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 60, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 141-147

  Grove, A T ^a  

^a DOWNING COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

global dimming; Holocene climates; mountain environments; solar radiation; volcanism

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; GLACIER; HOLOCENE; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; SOLAR RADIATION; VOLCANISM;

EID: 36549049323     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2006.07.033     Document Type: Article

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