Understanding future changes in snow and glacier melt runoff due to global warming in Wangar Gad Basin, India

Current Science

Volumn 97, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1077-1081

  Rathore, B P ^a   Kulkarni, Anil V ^a   Sherasia, N K ^b  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^b GUJARAT UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Glacier; Global warming; Hydropower; Runoff; Snow; Wangar gad

Indexed keywords

NALA;

EID: 71749106497     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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