Snow cover and depth of freeze-thaw on the Tibetan Plateau: A case study from 1997 to 1998

Physical Geography

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 208-221

  Yang, Meixue ^a,b,c   Yao, Tandong ^b   Nelson, Frederick E ^c   Shiklomanov, Nikolay I ^c   Guo, Donglin ^a   Wang, Chenhai ^d  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; AIR TEMPERATURE; ALBEDO; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; PERMAFROST; SNOW COVER; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

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

EID: 65649103438     PISSN: 02723646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3646.29.3.208     Document Type: Article

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