Prediction of permafrost distribution on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the next 50 and 100 years

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 797-804

  Nan, Zhuotong ^a   Li, Shuxun ^a   Cheng, Guodong ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Geographical Information System (GIS); Numerical methods; Permafrost distribution; Scenario prediction; The Qinghai Tibet Plateau (QTP)

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SOILS;

EARTH AIR TEMPERATURE; PERMAFROST DISTRIBUTION; SCENARIO PREDICTION; THE QINGHAI-TIBET PLATEAU (QTP);

PERMAFROST;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMAFROST; PLATEAU;

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

EID: 33746333854     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/03yd0258     Document Type: Article

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