Palaeoclimate from glaciers: Examples from the Eastern Alps during the Alpine Lateglacial and early Holocene

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 60, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 58-71

  Kerschner, Hanns ^a   Ivy Ochs, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alps; glacier climate models; Holocene; Palaeoclimatology; Termination 1

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; FLOW MODELING; GLACIER ADVANCE; GLACIER FLOW; HEINRICH EVENT; HOLOCENE; ICE RAFTING; LATE GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 36649020206     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2006.07.034     Document Type: Article

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