Volume change reconstruction of Swiss glaciers from length change data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Lüthi, Martin P ^a   Bauder, Andreas ^a   Funk, Martin ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLACIER; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER RETREAT; MOUNTAIN REGION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECONSTRUCTION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; VOLUME CHANGE;

ALPS; CENTRAL ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 78649513298     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JF001695     Document Type: Article

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