Recent mass balance of the purogangri ice cap, central tibetan plateau, by means of differential x-band sar interferometry

Cryosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1623-1633

  Neckel, N ^a   Braun, A ^a   Kropacek J ^a   Hochschild, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYOSPHERE; DATA SET; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIOLOGY; ICE CAP; ICE FIELD; INTERFEROMETRY; LANDSAT; MASS BALANCE; SATELLITE DATA; TERRASAR-X;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84886529380     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-7-1623-2013     Document Type: Article

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