Trends and variability in the global dataset of glacier mass balance

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 48, Issue 9-10, 2017, Pages 3085-3097

  Medwedeff, William G ^a   Roe, Gerard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; DATA SET; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; GLACIOLOGY; PREDICTION; SUMMER; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84976519223     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-016-3253-x     Document Type: Article

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