'Little ice age' precipitation in jotunheimen, southern Norway

Holocene

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1039-1045

  Rasmussen, L A ^a   Andreassen, L M ^b   Baumann, S ^c   Conway, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN WATER RESOURCES AND ENERGY DIRECTORATE   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

'Little Ice Age'; glacier expansion; glacier mass balance; Jotunheimen; late Holocene; precipitation anomaly; southern Norway

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; GLACIOLOGY; LANDSAT; LITTLE ICE AGE; MORAINE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); WARMING;

JOTUNHEIMEN; NORWAY;

EID: 77957981959     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683610369510     Document Type: Article

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