Spatial and temporal variations of albedo on nine glaciers in western China from 2000 to 2011

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3454-3465

  Wang, Jie ^a,b   Ye, Baisheng ^b   Cui, Yuhuan ^b   He, Xiaobo ^b   Yang, Guojing ^b  

^a ANHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute Chinese Academy of Sciences ^*  (China)

Author keywords

Black carbon; Glacier albedo; Mass balance; Tibetan Plateau; Variation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DATA PROCESSING;

BLACK CARBON; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; MASS BALANCE; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIBETAN PLATEAU; VARIATION;

SOLAR RADIATION;

ALBEDO; BLACK CARBON; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GLACIER MASS BALANCE; SNOWPACK; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84897548384     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9883     Document Type: Article

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