Tibetan plateau serves as a water tower

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages 3120-3123

  Lu, Chunxia ^a   Yu, Ge ^a   Xie, Gaodi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Tibetan Plateau; Water storage and conservation; Water tower

Indexed keywords

AIR; AQUIFERS; ECOSYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GROUNDWATER; POTENTIAL ENERGY;

OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; TIBETAN PLATEAU; WATER STORAGE AND CONSERVATION; WATER TOWER;

WATER TOWERS;

EID: 33745684197     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2005.1526498     Document Type: Conference Paper

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