Accelerated lake expansion on the Tibetan Plateau in the 2000s: Induced by glacial melting or other processes-

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 3170-3186

  Song, Chunqiao ^a   Huang, Bo ^a   Richards, Keith ^b   Ke, Linghong ^c   Hien Phan, Vu ^d  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

climate change; glacier; lake; Tibetan Plateau; water level

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EXPANSION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; GLACIERS; WATER LEVELS;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; PRECIPITATION AND RUNOFF; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; QUANTITATIVE MODELING; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SENSITIVE INDICATOR; TIBETAN PLATEAU; WATER LEVEL CHANGES;

LAKES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIER; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; LAKE LEVEL; LAKE WATER; MELTING; MELTWATER; RUNOFF; WATER LEVEL;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84899037055     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014724     Document Type: Article

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