Projected deglaciation of western Canada in the twenty-first century

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 372-377

  Clarke, Garry K C ^a   Jarosch, Alexander H ^b   Anslow, Faron S ^c   Radić, Valentina ^a   Menounos, Brian ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; DEGLACIATION; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; ICE COVER; MASS BALANCE; MELTWATER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WATER AVAILABILITY;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

EID: 84928612426     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2407     Document Type: Article

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