Monitoring lake changes of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau over the past 30 years using satellite remote sensing data

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1021-1035

  Wan, Wei ^a,b   Xiao, Pengfeng ^b   Feng, Xuezhi ^b   Li, Hui ^b   Ma, Ronghua ^c   Duan, Hongtao ^c   Zhao, Limin ^d  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Kekexili Region; Lake investigation; Nagqu Region; Qinghai Tibetan Plateau; Source area of the Yellow River

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892849846     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-014-0128-6     Document Type: Article

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