Centennial glacier retreat as categorical evidence of regional climate change

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 95-99

  Roe, Gerard H ^a   Baker, Marcia B ^a   Herla, Florian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIER; GLACIER RETREAT; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 85028646778     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2863     Document Type: Article

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