Modelling the 20th and 21st century evolution of Hoffellsjökull glacier, SE-Vatnajökull, Iceland

Cryosphere

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1961-1975

  Aualgeirsdottir G ^a,b   Guumundsson S ^a   Bjornsson H ^a   Palsson F ^a   Johannesson T ^c   Hannesdottir H ^a   Sigurusson S P ^a   Berthier, E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^c ICELANDIC METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE   (Iceland)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; ECHO SOUNDER; GLACIER FLOW; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; GLACIER RETREAT; GPS; ICE CAP; ICE COVER; KINEMATICS; LITTLE ICE AGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECONSTRUCTION; RUNOFF; SPOT; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

HOFFELLSJOKULL; ICELAND;

EID: 80455127377     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-5-961-2011     Document Type: Review

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