Permafrost changes in the northern limit of permafrost on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the last 30 years

Dili Xuebao/Acta Geographica Sinica

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 817-823

  Nan, Zhuotong ^a   Gao, Zeshen ^a   Li, Shuxun ^a   Wu, Tonghua ^a  

^a CAS ^*  (China)

Author keywords

Permafrost; Radar survey; The Qinghai Tibet Plateau; Xidatan

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; PERMAFROST; RADAR;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI; XIZANG;

EID: 2342569608     PISSN: 03755444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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