An aerial view of 80 years of climate-related glacier fluctuations in southeast Greenland

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 427-432

  Bjørk, Anders A ^a   Kjær, Kurt H ^a   Korsgaard, Niels J ^a   Khan, Shfaqat A ^b   Kjeldsen, Kristian K ^a   Andresen, Camilla S ^c   Box, Jason E ^d,e   Larsen, Nicolaj K ^f   Funder, Svend ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; AERIAL SURVEY; AIR TEMPERATURE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER RETREAT; HISTORICAL RECORD; ICE CAP; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 84861687264     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1481     Document Type: Article

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