Reconstruction of the annual mass balance of Chhota Shigri glacier, Western Himalaya, India, since 1969

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 55, Issue 66, 2014, Pages 69-80

  Azam, Mohd Farooq ^a,b   Wagnon, Patrick ^a,c   Patrick, Christian ^d   Ramanathan, Alagappan ^b   Linda, Anurag ^b   Singh, Virendra Bahadur ^b  

^a GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT   (Nepal)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Accumulation; Climate change; Glacier mass balance; Glacier modelling

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION; AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; GLACIOLOGY;

CHHOTA SHIGRI GLACIER; HIMACHAL PRADESH; INDIA; HIMALAYAS;

EID: 84903210503     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/2014AoG66A104     Document Type: Article

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