Glacial runoff characteristics of the Koxkar Glacier, Tuomuer-Khan Tengri Mountain Ranges, China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 665-674

  Han, Haidong ^a   Liu, Shiyin ^a   Wang, Jian ^a   Wang, Qiang ^a   Xie, Changwei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Diurnal variation; Flow duration; Koxkar Glacier; Melt runoff; Time lag

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; DIURNAL VARIATION; FLOW DURATION; GLACIAL RUNOFF; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; KOXKAR GLACIER; MONTHLY SCALE; MOUNTAIN RANGES; TIME LAG; TIME TO PEAK;

ABLATION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW;

GLACIERS;

ABLATION; ANNUAL VARIATION; DISCHARGE; DIURNAL VARIATION; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; MELTWATER; RUNOFF; SEASONALITY; STREAMFLOW; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CHINA; TIEN SHAN;

EID: 77955087552     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-009-0378-9     Document Type: Article

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