Estimated wind river range (Wyoming, USA) glacier melt water contributions to agriculture

Remote Sensing

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 818-828

  Cheesbrough, Kyle ^a   Edmunds, Jake ^a   Tootle, Glenn ^b   Kerr, Greg ^a   Pochop, Larry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

Area change; Glacier; Glacier meltwater; Landsat

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WATER; AREA REDUCTION; AREA-CHANGES; CATTLE INDUSTRY; GLACIER RECESSION; GROWING SEASON; INCREASED TEMPERATURE; LANDSAT; MELT WATER; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS; SURFACE AREA; TOTAL SURFACE AREA; VOLUME LOSS; WARM SEASONS; WIND RIVER; WYOMING; WYOMING ,USA;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CROPS; CULTIVATION; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RIVERS; STREAM FLOW; WATER SUPPLY;

GLACIERS;

EID: 78149488114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs1040818     Document Type: Article

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