Glacier volume response time and its links to climate and topography based on a conceptual model of glacier hypsometry

Cryosphere

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 183-194

  Raper, S C B ^a   Braithwaite, R J ^b  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GEOMETRY; HYPSOMETRY; MASS BALANCE; VOLUME;

ARCTIC; AXEL HEIBERG ISLAND; CANADA; NUNAVUT; QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 75749096819     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-3-183-2009     Document Type: Article

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