Influence of supraglacial debris on summer ablation and mass balance in the 24k glacier, southeast tibetan plateau

Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 353-360

  Wei, Yang ^a   Tandong, Yao ^a   Baiqing, Xu ^a   Hang, Zhou ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Ablation; Debris cover; Southeast Tibetan Plateau; The 24K Glacier

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; DEBRIS FLOW; GLACIOLOGY; MASS BALANCE; SUMMER;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 77956455701     PISSN: 04353676     EISSN: 14680459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0459.2010.00400.x     Document Type: Article

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