Introduction: Climate and land-cover changes in the arctic

Eurasian Arctic Land Cover and Land Use in a Changing Climate

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-8

  Groisman, Pavel ^a   Gutman, Garik ^b   Reissell, Anni ^c  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^b NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

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EID: 84880361671     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9118-5_1     Document Type: Chapter

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