Himalayan glaciers: The big picture is a montage

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 36, 2011, Pages 14709-14710

  Kargel, Jeffrey S ^a   Cogley, J Graham ^b   Leonard, Gregory J ^a   Haritashya, Umesh ^c   Byers, Alton ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^d Department of Research and Education   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; BHUTAN; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEGLACIATION; DIGITAL IMAGING; GEOGRAPHY; GLACIAL MASS BALANCE; GLACIER; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HIMALAYAS MOUNTAIN; INDIA; NEPAL; NOTE; OSCILLATION; PAKISTAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; TELECOMMUNICATION;

ECOSYSTEM; ICE COVER;

EID: 80052582947     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1111663108     Document Type: Note

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