Recent ground surface warming and its effects on permafrost on the central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 920-930

  Wu, Tonghua ^a   Zhao, Lin ^a   Li, Ren ^a   Wang, Qinxue ^b   Xie, Changwei ^a   Pang, Qiangqiang ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climatic warming; Ground surface temperatures; Permafrost; Qinghai Tibet Plateau

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATIC WARMING; COLD REGIONS; GROUND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; GROUND SURFACES; GROUND THERMAL REGIMES; LONG-TERM OBSERVATIONS; MEAN ANNUAL AIR TEMPERATURES; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; NON-PARAMETRIC STATISTICS; PERMAFROST REGION; QINGHAI TIBET PLATEAU; SEASONAL TRENDS; SURFACE FREEZING; THERMAL REGIMES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FREEZING; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THAWING;

PERMAFROST;

AIR TEMPERATURE; COLD REGION; FREEZING; GLOBAL WARMING; PERMAFROST; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THAWING; THERMAL REGIME; TREND ANALYSIS;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84874773948     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3479     Document Type: Article

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