Glacier decline between 1963 and 2006 in the Cordillera Real, Bolivia

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Soruco, Alvaro ^a,b   Vincent, Christian ^b   Francou, Bernard ^a,b   Gonzalez, Javier Francisco ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE VOLUMES; MASS BALANCES; PHOTOGRAMMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; SURFACE AREAS; TROPICAL ANDES; VOLUME CHANGES; CLIMATE; MASS BALANCE; SURFACE AREA; VOLUME CHANGE;

GLACIERS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY;

CLIMATE EFFECT; GLACIER DYNAMICS; MASS BALANCE; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; SURFACE AREA; VOLUME CHANGE;

BOLIVIA; CORDILLERA REAL [BOLIVIA]; SOUTH AMERICA;

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS; GLACIERS;

EID: 65249109908     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036238     Document Type: Article

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