First detection of glacial meltwater signature in tree-ring δ18O: Reconstructing past major glacier runoff events at Lago Verde (Miage Glacier, Italy)

Boreas

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 600-607

  Leonelli, Giovanni ^a   Pelfini, Manuela ^a   Battipaglia, Giovanna ^b   Saurer, Matthias ^c   Siegwolf, Rolf T W ^c   Cherubini, Paolo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTION METHOD; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; GLACIER DYNAMICS; MELTWATER; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; RUNOFF; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; TREE RING;

ITALY; MIAGE GLACIER; VALLE D'AOSTA;

LARIX;

EID: 84901918816     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bor.12055     Document Type: Article

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