Land-based marginal ice cliffs: Focus on Kilimanjaro

Erdkunde

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 179-193

  Winkler, Michael ^a   Kaser, Georg ^a   Cullen, Nicolas J ^a   Mölg, Thomas ^b   Hardy, Douglas R ^c   Pfeffer, W Tad ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dry calving; Glacier retreat; Ice cliffs; Kilimanjaro; Solar radiation model; Terrestrial photogrammetry; Tropical glaciers

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; CLIFF; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIER; GLACIER RETREAT; INSOLATION; IRRADIANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; SHRINKAGE; SOLAR RADIATION;

KILIMANJARO [TANZANIA]; TANZANIA;

EID: 78650204061     PISSN: 00140015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.2010.02.05     Document Type: Article

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