56 years of solifluction measurements in the abisko mountains, northern Sweden - Analysis of temporal and spatial variations of slow soil surface movement

Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 215-232

  Ridefelt, Hanna ^a   Åkerman, Jonas ^b   Beylich, Achim A ^c   Boelhouwers, Jan ^a   Kolstrup, Else ^a   Nyberg, Rolf ^d  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^d KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Abisko; Long term measurement; Solifluction movement

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; CORRELATION; DATA SET; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMAFROST; PROBABILITY; SOIL SURFACE; SOLIFLUCTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ABISKO MOUNTAINS; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORRBOTTEN; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 70349849412     PISSN: 04353676     EISSN: 14680459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0459.2009.00365.x     Document Type: Article

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