High-altitude salt lake elevation changes and glacial ablation in Central Tibet, 2000-2010

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 525-534

  Meng, Kai ^a,b   Shi, Xu Hua ^c   Wang, Erchie ^a   Liu, Feng ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bangor Co; climate change; Co'e; correlation analysis; glacier ablation; high altitude salt lake; lake level increase; Siling Co

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856225114     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-011-4849-5     Document Type: Article

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