Lake variations in response to climate change in the Tibetan Plateau in the past 40 years

International Journal of Digital Earth

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 534-549

  Liao, Jingjuan ^a   Shen, Guozhuang ^a   Li, Yingkui ^b  

^a CENTER FOR EARTH OBSERVATION AND DIGITAL EARTH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; lake variation; Qinghai Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

EXPANSION; LAKES; MAPS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PERMAFROST; SNOW;

DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS; EXPANSION AND SHRINKAGE; MULTIVARIATE CORRELATION; PERMAFROST DEGRADATION; QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU; RISING TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; GLACIER DYNAMICS; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; LAKE WATER; LANDSAT MULTISPECTRAL SCANNER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MAP; PERMAFROST; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW COVER;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84888096574     PISSN: 17538947     EISSN: 17538955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2012.656290     Document Type: Article

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