A century of variation in the dependence of Greenland iceberg calving on ice sheet surface mass balance and regional climate change

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 470, Issue 2166, 2014, Pages

  Bigg, G R ^a   Wei, H L ^a   Wilton, D J ^a   Zhao, Y ^a   Billings, S A ^a   Hanna, E ^a   Kadirkamanathan, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coupled ocean iceberg model; Greenland icebergs; Nonlinear auto regressive moving average with exogenous modelling; Twentieth century climate variation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE VARIATION; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; NON-LINEAR AUTO-REGRESSIVE MOVING AVERAGES; NONLINEAR COMBINATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; SURFACE MASS BALANCE;

SEA ICE;

EID: 84899789993     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2013.0662     Document Type: Article

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