Glaciers, snow and ski tourism in Austria's changing climate

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 52, Issue 58, 2011, Pages 89-96

  Fischer, Andrea ^a,b   Olefs, Marc ^a,c   Abermann, Jakob ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^c ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CRYOSPHERE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; RADIOSONDE; SNOW COVER; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 80053527101     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756411797252338     Document Type: Article

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