Changes of climate, glaciers and runoff in China's monsoonal temperate glacier region during the last several decades

Quaternary International

Volumn 218, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 13-28

  Zongxing, Li ^a,b   Yuanqing, He ^a,d   Tao, Pu ^c   Wenxiong, Jia ^a,b   Xianzhong, He ^a,b   Hongxi, Pang ^a,d   Ningning, Zhang ^a,b   Qiao, Liu ^b,e   Shijing, Wang ^a,b   Guofeng, Zhu ^a,b   Shuxin, Wang ^a,b   Li, Chang ^a,b   Jiankuo, Du ^d   Huijuan, Xin ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Tongji University   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF MOUNTAIN HAZARDS AND ENVIRONMENT   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; GEOACCUMULATION; GLACIER; GLACIER RETREAT; ICE CORE; MASS BALANCE; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; RUNOFF; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; WARMING;

CHINA; DASUOPU GLACIER; HAILUOGOU GLACIER; SICHUAN; XIZANG;

EID: 77952549557     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2009.05.010     Document Type: Article

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