Changes in meltwater chemistry over a 20-year period following a thermal regime switch from polythermal to cold-based glaciation at Austre Brøggerbreen, Svalbard

Polar Research

Volumn 33, Issue 2014, 2014, Pages

  Nowak, Aga ^a   Hodson, Andy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bayelva; Chemical weathering in glacierized catchment; Climate change; Glacier retreat; High arctic; Meltwater geochemistry

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIATION; GLACIER RETREAT; MELTWATER; THERMAL REGIME; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ARCTIC; AUSTRE BROGGERBREEN; BAYELVA; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 84930944976     PISSN: 08000395     EISSN: 17518369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/polar.v33.22779     Document Type: Article

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