Glacier and glacial lake changes and their relationship in the context of climate change, Central Tibetan Plateau 1972-2010

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 111, Issue , 2013, Pages 246-257

  Wang, Xu ^a,b   Siegert, Florian ^b,c   Zhou, Ai guo ^a   Franke, Jonas ^c  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c REMOTE SENSING SOLUTIONS GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Central Tibet Plateau; Climate change; Glacier; Lakes; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; CENTRAL TIBETAN PLATEAU; INCREASED TEMPERATURE; MEAN ANNUAL TEMPERATURES; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SPATIO-TEMPORAL CHANGES; TIBET PLATEAU; VISUAL INTERPRETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; GLACIERS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; REMOTE SENSING; WATER LEVELS;

LAKES;

ALTITUDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CORRELATION; DATA ACQUISITION; GIS; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; GLACIAL LAKE; MELTING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; SALINE LAKE; VALLEY GLACIER;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84886314853     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2013.09.011     Document Type: Article

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