Climate trends and glacier retreat in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru, revisited

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 119, Issue , 2014, Pages 85-97

  Schauwecker, S ^a,d   Rohrer, M ^a   Acuna D ^b   Cochachin, A ^c   Davila L ^c   Frey, H ^d   Giraldez C ^d   Gomez J ^c   Huggel, C ^d   Jacques Coper, M ^e   Loarte, E ^f   Salzmann, N ^d,g   Vuille, M ^h  

^a METEODAT GMBH   (Switzerland)

^b Servicio Nacional de Meteorologa e Hidrologa del Peru   (Peru)

^c ANA UGRH ^*  (Peru)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL SANTIAGO ANTÚNEZ DE MAYOLO   (Peru)

^g UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^h STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Air temperature; Climate change; Cordillera Blanca; Equilibrium line altitude (ELA); Glacier change; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

AIR TEMPERATURE; COOLING TRENDS; CORDILLERA BLANCA; EQUILIBRIUM-LINE ALTITUDE (ELA); GLACIER CHANGE; GLACIER RETREAT; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; PRECIPITATION CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; GLACIER DYNAMICS; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

ANCASH; CORDILLERA BLANCA; CORDILLERA OCCIDENTAL [PERU]; PERU;

EID: 84902581171     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2014.05.005     Document Type: Article

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