Mass loss on himalayan glacier endangers water resources

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 22, 2008, Pages

  Kehrwald, Natalie M ^a,e   Thompson, Lonnie G ^a,e   Tandong, Yao ^b   Mosley Thompson, Ellen ^a,e   Schotterer, Ulrich ^b,c   Alfimov, Vasily ^d,f   Beer, Jürg ^a,e   Eikenberg, Jost ^c,g   Davis, Mary E ^a,e  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^e PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^f Department of Limnology   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; ICE; WATER RESOURCES;

BETA RADIOACTIVITIES; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; ELEVATED LEVELS; HIMALAYA; ICE CORES; MASS BALANCES; MASS LOSS; MID-LATITUDES; THERMONUCLEAR BOMB TESTING;

GLACIERS;

GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; HEADWATER; ICE CORE; RADIOACTIVITY; WATER RESOURCE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NAIMONANYI GLACIER; XIZANG;

EID: 60149095153     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035556     Document Type: Article

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