Tree-ring-based reconstructions of North American glacier mass balance through the Little Ice Age - Contemporary warming transition

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 123-137

  Malcomb, Nathan L ^a   Wiles, Gregory C ^b  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b 931 College Mall   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Glacier mass balance; Pacific Northwest; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

19TH CENTURY; CLIMATE FORCINGS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; GLACIER RECONSTRUCTION; GLOBAL CLIMATES; LITTLE ICE AGE; MASS BALANCE; NORTH AMERICAN; NORTH PACIFIC; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; REGIONAL PATTERN; SOLAR MINIMA; TELECONNECTION PATTERNS; TREE RINGS; TREE-RING CHRONOLOGIES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; REPAIR;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MOISTURE; MORAINE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOTEMPERATURE; RECONSTRUCTION; TELECONNECTION; TREE RING;

ALASKA; CLIMATES; MAINTENANCE; MATERIALS BALANCE; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; SUN LIGHT;

ALASKA; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874266096     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2012.11.005     Document Type: Article

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