Increased mass over the Tibetan Plateau: From lakes or glaciers?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2125-2130

  Zhang, Guoqing ^a,b   Yao, Tandong ^a   Xie, Hongjie ^c   Kang, Shichang ^a   Lei, Yanbin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

glacier; ICESat; lake level; mass balance; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; ICESAT; LAKE LEVELS; MASS BALANCE; MASS INCREASE; MEAN LAKE LEVELS; TIBET PLATEAU; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

GLACIERS; LAKES; WATER LEVELS;

GRAVITATION;

GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; GRACE; ICESAT; LAKE; MASS BALANCE; WATER MASS;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84879988835     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50462     Document Type: Article

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