Linking two centuries of tree growth and glacier dynamics with climate changes in Kamchatka

Climatic Change

Volumn 124, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 207-220

  Dolezal, Jiri ^a,b   Altman, Jan ^a,b   Vetrova, Valentina P ^c   Hara, Toshihiko ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c PACIFIC INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; METEOROLOGY;

DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TERMINAL MORAINES;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER RETREAT; GROWTH RATE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; TIMESCALE; TREE;

FORESTRY; GEOLOGY; METEOROLOGY;

KAMCHATKA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

BETULA ERMANII;

EID: 84901244941     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1093-4     Document Type: Article

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