The footprint of Asian monsoon dynamics in the mass and energy balance of a Tibetan glacier

Cryosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1445-1461

  Molg T ^a   Maussion, F ^a   Yang, W ^b   Scherer, D ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MONSOON; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHORTWAVE RADIATION;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84870835510     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-6-1445-2012     Document Type: Article

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