Snow and glacier cover assessment in the high mountains of Sikkim Himalaya

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2375-2383

  Krishna, Akhouri Pramod ^a  

^a G B PANT INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT   (India)

Author keywords

GIS; Glacier recession; Global change impacts; Hydrology; Remote sensing; Sikkim Himalaya; Snow cover; Tista river catchment

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GLACIERS; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; RUNOFF; SNOW;

GLACIER RECESSION; GLOBAL CHANGE IMPACTS; SIKKIM HIMALAYA; SNOW COVER; TISTA RIVER CATCHMENT;

HYDROLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW COVER;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS; WORLD;

EID: 23844551560     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.5890     Document Type: Article

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