Changes in late-Neoglacial perennial snow/ice extent and equilibrium-line altitudes in the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Arctic Canada

Holocene

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 615-627

  Wolken, Gabriel J ^a   England, John H ^a   Dyke, Arthur S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

'Little ice age'; Arctic Canada; Climate variability; Equilibrium line altitude; Glaciers; Ice cover change; Queen Elizabeth Islands; Snow extent; Trimlines

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; EQUILIBRIUM LINE; ICE COVER; LITTLE ICE AGE; MOUNTAIN; NEOGLACIAL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW COVER;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS;

EID: 58149387211     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683608089215     Document Type: Article

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