Hillslope-glacier coupling: The interplay of topography and glacial dynamics in High Asia

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Scherler, Dirk ^a   Bookhagen, Bodo ^b   Strecker, Manfred R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLING; DEBRIS FLOW; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLOW VELOCITY; GLACIER; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER RETREAT; HILLSLOPE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PERIGLACIAL PROCESS; RELIEF; SNOW ACCUMULATION;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 79958781959     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JF001751     Document Type: Article

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