Temporal-spatial climate change in the last 35 years in Tibet and its geo-environmental consequences

Environmental Geology

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1747-1754

  Liu, Wei ^a,b   Guo, Qinghai ^a   Wang, Yanxin ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b Geo environmental Monitoring Institute of Tibet Autonomous Region   (China)

Author keywords

Air temperature; Climate change; Geo environment; Rainfall; Tibet plateau; Water resource

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; LANDSLIDES; RAIN; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WATER RESOURCES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; GEOENVIRONMENT; TIBET PLATEAU; WATER CYCLE;

GLOBAL WARMING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DEBRIS FLOW; GLOBAL WARMING; ICE LAKE; RAINFALL; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; XIZANG;

EID: 44349113448     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-007-0952-y     Document Type: Article

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