Permafrost and cold-region environmental problems of the oil product pipeline from Golmud to Lhasa on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and their mitigation

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 279-288

  He, Ruixia ^a   Jin, Huijun ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Geohazards; High elevation permafrost; Impacts of human activities and climate warming; Narrow engineering corridor; Oil product pipeline; Qinghai Tibet Plateau

Indexed keywords

GEOHAZARDS; HIGH-ELEVATION PERMAFROST; IMPACTS OF HUMAN ACTIVITIES AND CLIMATE WARMING; NARROW ENGINEERING CORRIDOR; OIL PRODUCT; QINGHAI TIBET PLATEAU;

PERMAFROST; PIPELINES;

LEAKAGE (FLUID);

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COLD REGION; ELEVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; GLOBAL WARMING; MAINTENANCE; OIL PIPELINE; PERMAFROST; PIPELINE PROTECTION; REPAIR;

CHINA; GOLMUD; LHASA; QINGHAI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XIZANG;

EID: 78149468719     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2010.01.003     Document Type: Article

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