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Glaciers in the Canadian Columbia Basin, Technical Report
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Glaciers in the Canadian Columbia Basin, Technical Report |
| Creator | Menounos, Brian Pelto, Ben M. Fleming, Sean W. Moore, R. Dan Weber, Frank Hutchinson, Dave Brahney, Janice |
| Description | The cryosphere - all forms of frozen water on Earth- plays a fundamental role in its climate system. Seasonal snow, mountain glaciers, ice sheets, and sea ice reflect much of the incoming shortwave radiation at high latitudes and in mountainous terrain back to space, helping to regulate the surface temperature of the planet. Accelerating concentrations of greenhouse gases (Solomon et al. 2009) are responsible for late twentieth and early twenty-first century tropospheric warming; this warming... |
| Date | 2020-02-01T08:00:00Z |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Identifier | https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/wats_facpub/1111 https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/context/wats_facpub/article/2134/viewcontent/WATSfacpub2020MenounosPeltoFleming_GlaciersCanadianColumbia.pdf |
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| Source | Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications |
| Publisher | Hosted by Utah State University Libraries |
| Contributor | Canadian Columbia Basin Glacier and Snow Research Network |
| Subject | glacier Canada Canadian Columbia Basin climate Environmental Sciences |
