Medieval climate change and settlement in Iceland

Two models are presented in the thesis. The first modelling approach used is to apply a three-dimensional ice sheet model (GLIMMER) to test the sensitivity of selected small glaciers to growth and disappearance. This feeds into an original mass-balance and vegetation cover model, built using meteoro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Casely, Andrew
Published: University of Edinburgh 2006
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.642663