Observed Mass Balance of Mountain Glaciers and Greenland Ice Sheet in the 20th Century and the Present Trends

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 32, Issue 4-5, 2011, Pages 537-554

  Ohmura, Atsumu ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Greenland; Mass balance; Mountain glaciers; Trends

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; AEROSOL EMISSIONS; ANTARCTICA; DRIVING FORCES; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; GLOBAL DIMMING; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; ICE SHEET; ICE-CAPS; MASS BALANCE; MASS LOSS; MOUNTAIN GLACIERS; SURFACE AREA; TOTAL MASS; TRENDS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WATER EQUIVALENT;

ABLATION; GAGES; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; GREENHOUSE GASES; LANDFORMS; SNOW; THERMAL EXPANSION;

ICE;

ABLATION; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; GREENHOUSE GAS; ICE CAP; ICE SHEET; MOUNTAIN REGION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SUMMER; TREND ANALYSIS; WINTER;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 80053210593     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-011-9124-4     Document Type: Article

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