Response of snow cover to climate change in the periphery mountains of Tarim river basin, China, over the past four decades

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 49, Issue , 2008, Pages 166-172

  Chen, Yaning ^a   Xu, Changchun ^b   Chen, Yapeng ^a   Li, Zhongqin ^c   Pang, Zhonghe ^d  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b XINJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SNOW COVER; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TARIM BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 58249088878     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756408787814717     Document Type: Article

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