Variations of glacial lakes and glaciers in the Boshula mountain range, southeast Tibet, from the 1970s to 2009

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 52, Issue 58, 2011, Pages 9-17

  Wang, Weicai ^a,c   Yao, Tandong ^a,b   Yang, Xiaoxin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; DEGLACIATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLOOD; GLACIAL LAKE; GLACIER; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MORAINE; OUTBURST; REMOTE SENSING; SUMMER;

CHINA; XIZANG;

EID: 79958815486     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756411797252347     Document Type: Article

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