Mountain permafrost: Development and challenges of a young research field

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 56, Issue 200, 2011, Pages 1043-1058

  Haeberli, Wilfried ^a   Noetzli, Jeannette ^a   Arenson, Lukas ^b   Delaloye, Reynald ^c   Gärtner Roer, Isabelle ^a   Gruber, Stephan ^a   Isaksen, Ketil ^d   Kneisel, Christof ^e   Krautblatter, Michael ^f   Phillips, Marcia ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b BGC ENGINEERING INC   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^d NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^g WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETRY; ALTITUDE; COLD REGION; FROZEN GROUND; GPS; MOUNTAIN REGION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMAFROST; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 80052216459     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/002214311796406121     Document Type: Review

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