Historical and Holocene glacier-climate variations: General concepts and overview

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 60, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 1-9

  Solomina, O ^a   Haeberli, W ^b   Kull, C ^c   Wiles, G ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c PAGES International Project Office   (Switzerland)

^d 931 College Mall   (United States)

Author keywords

climate; glacier; Holocene; variations

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; GLACIER; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE;

EID: 36649004312     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2007.02.001     Document Type: Article

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