Quantitative analysis of lake area variations and the influence factors from 1971 to 2004 in the Nam Co basin of the Tibetan Plateau

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 55, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 1294-1303

  Zhu, LiPing ^a   Xie, ManPing ^a,c   Wu, YanHong ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CENTER FOR EARTH OBSERVATION AND DIGITAL EARTH   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Lake area variation; Nam Co Lake; Remote sensing; Tibetan Plateau; Water balance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952131689     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-010-0015-8     Document Type: Article

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