Lake change and its implication in the vicinity of Mt. Qomolangma (Everest), central high Himalayas, 1970-2009

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 251-265

  Nie, Yong ^a,b   Zhang, Yili ^a   Ding, Mingjun ^c   Liu, Linshan ^a   Wang, Zhaofeng ^a  

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

^b INSTITUTE OF MOUNTAIN HAZARDS AND ENVIRONMENT   (China)

^c JIANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Everest; Glacier; Lake change; Qomolangma; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CHANGE TRENDS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EVEREST; GLACIER CHANGE; HIMALAYAS; INTERANNUAL; MELT WATER; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; OBJECT BASED; QOMOLANGMA; SENSITIVE INDICATOR; SHRINKAGE RATES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIERS; REMOTE SENSING; SHRINKAGE;

LAKES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ELEVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; GLACIAL LAKE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LAKE DYNAMICS; MELTWATER; METEOROLOGY; REMOTE SENSING;

HIMALAYAS; KHUMBU HIMAL; MOUNT EVEREST;

EID: 84871937469     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-1736-6     Document Type: Article

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