Climate change and forest fires synergistically drive widespread melt events of the Greenland Ice Sheet

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 7964-7967

  Keegan, Kaitlin M ^a   Albert, Mary R ^a   McConnell, Joseph R ^b   Baker, Ian ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK CARBON; FOSSIL FUEL; SNOW;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMBUSTION; FIRE; FOREST FIRE; GREENLAND; HIGH TEMPERATURE; ICE SHEET; MELTING POINT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMOTE SENSING; SEDIMENT; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE; WARM TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC REGIONS; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; FIRES; FREEZING; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENLAND; ICE COVER; SNOW; TREES;

EID: 84901856810     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1405397111     Document Type: Article

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