A mass balance model for the Eurasian Ice Sheet for the last 120,000 years

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 61, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 194-208

  van den Berg, Jojanneke ^a   van de Wal, Roderik ^a   Oerlemans, Hans ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Eurasia; ice flow model; mass balance; precipitation; Weichselian

Indexed keywords

GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; ICE FLOW; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MASS BALANCE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA ICE; WEICHSELIAN;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; KARA SEA;

EID: 41749113537     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2007.08.015     Document Type: Article

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