Changing inland lakes responding to climate warming in Northeastern Tibetan Plateau

Climatic Change

Volumn 109, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 479-502

  Huang, Lin ^a   Liu, Jiyuan ^a   Shao, Quanqin ^a   Liu, Ronggao ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MEAN TEMPERATURES; ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; CLIMATE WARMING; COLD SEASON; COMMON FEATURES; DISCONTINUOUS PERMAFROST; PERMAFROST REGION; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RISING TEMPERATURES; SURFACE AREA; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TRACK CHANGES; WARMING CLIMATE; YANGTZE RIVER; YELLOW RIVER;

LAKES; PERMAFROST; RIVERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WATER SUPPLY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GLOBAL WARMING; LAKE; PERMAFROST; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE IMAGERY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THAWING;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 81555216815     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0032-x     Document Type: Article

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