Climate and glacier fluctuations at Jostedalsbreen and Folgefonna, southwestern Norway and in the western Alps from the 'Little Ice Age' until the present: The influence of the North Atlantic Oscillation

Holocene

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 235-247

  Imhof, Patrizia ^a   Nesje, Atle ^b,c   Nussbaumer, Samuel U ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

climate index; European western Alps; Folgefonna; Jostedalsbreen; North Atlantic Oscillation; time lag

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; GLACIER DYNAMICS; INDEX METHOD; LITTLE ICE AGE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPORAL PERIOD;

ALPS; FOLGEFONNA; HORDALAND; JOSTEDALSBREEN; NORWAY; SOGN OG FJORDANE; WESTERN ALPS;

EID: 84855377117     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683611414935     Document Type: Article

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