Long-term changes of lake level and water budget in the nam co lake basin, central tibetan plateau

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1312-1322

  Wu, Yanhong ^a   Zheng, Hongxing ^b   Zhang, Bing ^a   Chen, Dongmei ^c   Lei, Liping ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; EVAPORATION; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; LAKE WATER; PERCOLATION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SNOWMELT; WATER BUDGET; WATER LEVEL;

CHINA; NAM CO; XIZANG;

EID: 84901927790     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-13-093.1     Document Type: Article

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