A permafrost warming in a cooling Antarctica?

Climatic Change

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 177-195

  Guglielmin, Mauro ^a   Cannone, Nicoletta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTARCTIC CLIMATE; ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; DATA SETS; DEGREE DAYS; GROUND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; INSTRUMENTAL DATA; MEAN ANNUAL TEMPERATURES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

PERMAFROST;

ACTIVE LAYER; AIR TEMPERATURE; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; DATA SET; GLACIER RETREAT; PERIGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; PERMAFROST; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; THAWING; WARMING;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84856707223     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0137-2     Document Type: Article

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