Quantifying present and future glacier melt-water contribution to runoff in a central Himalayan river basin

Cryosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 889-904

  Prasch, M ^a   Mauser, W ^a   Weber, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b BAVARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; GLACIER; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MELTWATER; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); RIVER BASIN; RUNOFF; SHRINKAGE; SNOWMELT; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER SUPPLY;

HIMALAYAS;

EID: 84885093406     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-7-889-2013     Document Type: Article

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