Glacial areas, lake areas, and snow lines from 1975 to 2012: Status of the cordillera vilcanota, including the Quelccaya Ice Cap, northern central Andes, Peru

Cryosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 359-376

  Hanshaw, M N ^a   Bookhagen, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATERSHED;

CORDILLERA DE VILCANOTA; CORDILLERA ORIENTAL [PERU]; CUZCO [PERU]; PERU;

EID: 84895783064     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-8-359-2014     Document Type: Article

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