Water storage change in the Himalayas from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and an empirical climate model

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Moiwo, Juana Paul ^a,b   Yang, Yonghui ^a   Tao, Fulu ^b   Lu, Wenxi ^c   Han, Shumin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^c JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECM MODEL; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER HYDROLOGY; GRAVITY DATA; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENT SATELLITES; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; GROUND TRUTH DATA; GROUNDWATER ABSTRACTION; HIMALAYAS; LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; LAND SURFACE MODELS; LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; MOUNTAIN LAKES; PLATEAU REGION; RIVER SYSTEMS; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS; SEASONALITY; STORAGE LOSS; STUDY AREAS; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TIBETAN PLATEAU; WARMING CLIMATE; WATER STORAGE;

CLIMATE MODELS; DATA PROCESSING; ECOSYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLACIERS; GROUNDWATER; RAIN; RANDOM ERRORS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SNOW; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE MODELING; COOLING; DATA SET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GLACIER; GLOBAL WARMING; GRACE; GRAVITY FIELD; HYDROLOGY; LAND SURFACE; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

CHINA; HIMALAYAS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 79960693059     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR010157     Document Type: Article

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