Limited forcing of glacier loss through land-cover change on Kilimanjaro

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 254-258

  Mölg, Thomas ^a,c   Großhauser, Martin ^a   Hemp, Andreas ^b   Hofer, Marlis ^a   Marzeion, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; GLACIER SURGE; GLOBAL CHANGE; LAND COVER; VALLEY GLACIER;

KILIMANJARO [TANZANIA]; TANZANIA;

EID: 84859409092     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1390     Document Type: Article

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