Accelerated melting of Himalayan snow and ice triggers pronounced changes in a valley peatland from northern India

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 15, 2006, Pages

  Rühland, Kathleen ^a   Phadtare, Netajirao R ^b   Pant, Rajendra K ^b   Sangode, Satish J ^b   Smol, John P ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b WADIA INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN GEOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; GLACIERS; ICE; PEAT; SNOW;

ICE MELT; MONSOON PRECIPITATION; PEAT DEPOSIT;

GEOPHYSICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DIATOM; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; MONSOON; MOUNTAIN REGION; PALEOCLIMATE; PEATLAND; POLLEN; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RUNOFF; SNOWMELT; WARMING;

ASIA; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 33845676577     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026704     Document Type: Article

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