Feedbacks and mechanisms affecting the global sensitivity of glaciers to climate change

Cryosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 59-71

  Marzeion, B ^a   Jarosch, A H ^b   Gregory, J M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE FORCING; CRYOSPHERE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; HYPSOMETRY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WARMING;

EID: 84892183911     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-8-59-2014     Document Type: Article

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