100-year mass changes in the Swiss Alps linked to the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Huss, Matthias ^c   Hock, Regine ^b   Bauder, Andreas ^a   Funk, Martin ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; CLIMATE LINKAGES; DISTRIBUTED MODELING; FIELD DATA; GLACIER CHANGE; MASS BALANCE; MASS CHANGE; MASS LOSS; MULTIDECADAL VARIATIONS; NORTH ATLANTIC; SURFACE MASS BALANCE; SWISS ALPS; THERMOHALINE OCEAN CIRCULATION;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; TIME SERIES;

GLACIERS;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CLIMATE EFFECT; DECADAL VARIATION; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; SNOW ACCUMULATION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; TIME SERIES;

ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 77952910788     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL042616     Document Type: Article

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