Glacier changes from a new inventory, Nianchu river basin, Tibetan Plateau

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 50, Issue 53, 2009, Pages 87-92

  Zhou, Caiping ^a   Yang, Wenbin ^a   Wu, Liang ^a   Liu, Shiyin ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b NONE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GLACIAL LAKE; GLACIER RETREAT; ICE COVER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 77249146435     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756410790595868     Document Type: Article

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