Monitoring and prediction of shrinkage of a small glacier in the Nepal Himalaya

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 24, Issue , 1997, Pages 90-94

  Kadota, Tsutomu ^a   Fujita, Koji ^a   Seko, Katsumoto ^a   Kayastha, Rijan B ^b   Ageta, Yutaka ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b His Majesty's Government of Nepal   (Nepal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIER RETREAT;

NEPAL, HIMALAYAS;

EID: 0031433547     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0260305500011988     Document Type: Article

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