Responses of two branches of Glacier No. 1 to climate change from 1993 to 2005, Tianshan, China

Quaternary International

Volumn 236, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 143-150

  Xu, Xiangke ^a   Pan, Baolin ^a,b   Hu, En ^a,b   Li, Yanjun ^a,b   Liang, Yuehua ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALTITUDE; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; EQUILIBRIUM LINE; FIELDWORK; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; VALLEY GLACIER; WARMING; WATER RESOURCE;

CHINA; TIEN SHAN; URUMQI GLACIER NO.1; URUMQI RIVER; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 79953724042     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.06.013     Document Type: Article

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