Glaciers of the outer and inner tropics: A different behaviour but a common response to climatic forcing

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 16, 2004, Pages

  Favier, Vincent ^a   Wagnon, Patrick ^b   Ribstein, Pierre ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HEAT FLUX; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; SNOW; TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

ENERGY FLUXES; MASS BALANCE; SURFACE ENERGY BALANCE (SEB); TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

GLACIERS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; GLACIER DYNAMICS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SNOWLINE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

ANTIZANA GLACIER; BOLIVIA; CORDILLERA REAL [BOLIVIA]; ECUADOR; LA PAZ [BOLIVIA]; PICHINCHA; QUITO; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD; ZONGO GLACIER;

EID: 7044222485     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020654     Document Type: Article

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