Spitsbergen landscape under 20th century climate change: Sørkapp Land

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Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 295-299

  Ziaja, Wieslaw ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIER RETREAT; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ARCTIC; SORKAPP LAND; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

ANIMALIA;

ICE;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT;

ARCTIC REGIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; ICE;

EID: 4344561956     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-33.6.295     Document Type: Article

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35. Thanks to B. Lefauconnier for his improvement of the paper, to E. Giles for assistance with copy-editing, and to M. Drewnik, A. Bokwa and M. Jodlowski for assistance with drawing figures. Summer observations in 2000 were made in the frame of the project No. 6P04G05418 financed by the Polish Committee for Scientific Research. Numerical data on mean annual temperatures in the Svalbard Airport were delivered by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute.
36. First submitted 31 March 2003. Revised manuscript received 29 Sept. 2003. Accepted for publication 29 Sept. 2003.