New evidence from Italy (Adamello Group, Lombardy) for analysing the ongoing decline of Alpine glaciers

Geografia Fisica e Dinamica Quaternaria

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 31-39

  Maragno, Davide ^a   Diolaiuti, Guglielmina ^a   D'Agata, Carlo ^a   Mihalcea, Claudia ^a   Bocchiola, Daniele ^b   Janetti, Emanuela Bianchi ^b   Riccardi, Anna ^a   Smiraglia, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Climate change impacts; Glacier shrinkage; Italian Alps

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DGPS; GIS; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLOBAL WARMING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LOMBARDY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 69549122789     PISSN: 03919838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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