Global warming accelerates the upfreezing of permafrost in arid middle Tianshan Mountains

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 58, Issue 31, 2013, Pages 3806-3814

  Li, ChuanChuan ^a   Chen, YiXin ^a   Nie, ZhenYu ^a   Cui, ZhiJiu ^a   Liu, GengNian ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

climate change; sorted circle; Tianshan Mountains; upfreezing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887474779     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-013-5891-2     Document Type: Article

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