Climate change and sediment flux from the roof of the world

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 732-735

  Lu, X X ^a   Zhang, Shurong ^a   Xu, Jianchu ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^c KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Glacial and snow melting; Large Asian rivers; Riverine sediment; The Hindu Kush Himalayas (HKH)

Indexed keywords

ASIAN RIVERS; HIMALAYAS; RIVERINE SEDIMENTS; SNOW-MELTING; THE HINDU KUSH-HIMALAYAS (HKH);

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SNOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; GLACIAL LANDFORM; RAINFALL; SNOWMELT; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

CHINA; HIMALAYAS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 77952286489     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1924     Document Type: Article

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