Long-term soil temperature dynamics in the Sierra Nevada, Spain

Geoderma

Volumn 235-236, Issue , 2014, Pages 170-181

  Oliva, Marc ^a   Gómez Ortiz, Antonio ^b   Salvador, Ferran ^b   Salvà, Montserrat ^b   Pereira, Paulo ^c   Geraldes, Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c MYKOLAS ROMERIS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Periglacial environment; Seasonal frost; Sierra Nevada; Snow cover; Soil temperatures; Solifluction processes

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DYNAMICS; FREEZING; FROZEN SOILS; LANDFORMS; SNOW;

PERIGLACIAL; SEASONAL FROSTS; SIERRA NEVADA; SNOW COVERS; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

TEMPERATURE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; FROST; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PERIGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; SNOW COVER; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOLIFLUCTION;

ANDALUCIA; BETIC CORDILLERA; SIERRA NEVADA [BETIC CORDILLERA]; SPAIN;

EID: 84904466102     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2014.07.012     Document Type: Article

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