Size specific steady-state accumulation-area ratio: An improvement for equilibrium-line estimation of small palaeoglaciers

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 19-20, 2010, Pages 2781-2787

  Kern, Zoltán ^a   László, Péter ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREA RATIOS; DATA SETS; LINE ESTIMATION; REGRESSION EQUATION;

DEBRIS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

GLACIERS;

ACCUMULATION; DATA SET; EQUILIBRIUM LINE; GLACIATION; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HYPSOMETRY; RECONSTRUCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955557431     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.06.033     Document Type: Article

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