Quantification of dead-ice melting in ice-cored moraines at the high-Arctic glacier Holmströmbreen, Svalbard

Boreas

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 211-225

  Schomacker, Anders ^a,b   Kjær, Kurt H ^c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIAL LANDFORM; GLACIER; ICE CORE; KARST; LITTLE ICE AGE; MELTING; MELTWATER; MORAINE; PALEOCLIMATE; PERMAFROST; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUICKBIRD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 55549126516     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2007.00014.x     Document Type: Article

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