A half-century of changes in China's lakes: Global warming or human influence?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 24, 2010, Pages

  Ma, Ronghua ^a   Duan, Hongtao ^a   Hu, Chuanmin ^b   Feng, Xuezhi ^c   Li, Ainong ^d   Ju, Weimin ^c   Jiang, Jiahu ^a   Yang, Guishan ^a  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF MOUNTAIN HAZARDS AND ENVIRONMENT   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING;

DATA SETS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMAN INFLUENCES; NORTH CHINA; SOUTH CHINA; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

LAKES;

DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAKE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 78650872717     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045514     Document Type: Article

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