Regional climate control of glaciers in New Zealand and Europe during the pre-industrial Holocene

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 627-630

  Putnam, Aaron E ^a,b   Schaefer, Joerg M ^a,c   Denton, George H ^b   Barrell, David J A ^d   Finkel, Robert C ^e   Andersen, Bjørn G ^f   Schwartz, Roseanne ^a   Chinn, Trevor J H ^g   Doughty, Alice M ^h  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^g Alpine and Polar Processes Consultancy ^*  (New Zealand)

^h VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; HOLOCENE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SNOWLINE;

EUROPE; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84865770867     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1548     Document Type: Article

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