Climate warming and growth of high-elevation inland lakes on the Tibetan Plateau

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 67, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 209-217

  Liu, Jingshi ^a   Wang, Siyuan ^a   Yu, Shumei ^a   Yang, Daqing ^b   Zhang, Lu ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b University of Alaska Fairbanks   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

air temperature; high elevation inland lake; precipitation; satellite image; Tibet; water balance

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE VARIATION; ELEVATION; GAUGE; LAKE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RUNOFF; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WARMING; WATER BUDGET;

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

EID: 67349227130     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.03.010     Document Type: Article

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