Modern changes of the climate and glaciers in China's monsoonal temperate-glacier region

Dili Xuebao/Acta Geographica Sinica

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 558-567

  He, Yuanqing ^a   Zhang, Zhonglin ^a   Yao, Tandong ^a   Chen, Tuo ^a   Pang, Hongxi ^a   Zhang, Dian ^b  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Climate change; Glacier variation; Monsoonal circulation; Temperate glacier

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; HOLOCENE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE;

CHINA;

EID: 0141796298     PISSN: 03755444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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