Regional cooling caused recent New Zealand glacier advances in a period of global warming

Many New Zealand glaciers advanced during recent global warming, bucking a worldwide trend of glacier retreat. Here, the authors show that these glacier advances were forced by a sequence of unusually cool years in the New Zealand region, rather than a period of increased precipitation.

Bibliographic Details

Published in:	Nature Communications
Main Authors:	Andrew N. Mackintosh, Brian M. Anderson, Andrew M. Lorrey, James A. Renwick, Prisco Frei, Sam M. Dean
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Nature Portfolio 2017-02-01
Subjects:	open climate campaign
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14202