Changes in the southeast Vatnajo7die;kull ice cap, Iceland, between ∼1890 and 2010c

Cryosphere

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 565-585

  Hannesdottir H ^a   Bjornsson H ^a   Palsson F ^a   Adalgeirsdottir G ^a   Gudmundsson, Sv ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCING; CRYOSPHERE; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; ICE CAP; LITTLE ICE AGE; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; VOLUME CHANGE;

ICELAND; VATNAJOKULL;

EID: 84925346803     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-9-565-2015     Document Type: Review

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