Glacial mass balance changes in the Karakoram and Himalaya based on CMIP5 multi-model climate projections

Climatic Change

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 315-328

  Chaturvedi, Rajiv K ^a   Kulkarni, Anil ^a   Karyakarte, Yogesh ^a   Joshi, Jaideep ^a   Bala, G ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PROJECTION; EMISSION SCENARIO; FUTURE CLIMATE; GLACIAL MASS BALANCE; LOW EMISSION SCENARIOS; MASS BALANCE; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; REGION-BASED;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; WATER RESOURCES;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; FUTURE PROSPECT; GEOACCUMULATION; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; GLACIER RETREAT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER RESOURCE;

KARAKORAM;

EID: 84896722310     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-1052-5     Document Type: Article

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