Lakes' state and abundance across the Tibetan Plateau

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 59, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 3010-3021

  Zhang, Guoqing ^a   Yao, Tandong ^a   Xie, Hongjie ^b   Zhang, Kexiang ^c   Zhu, Fujing ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Abundance; Lake area; Landsat; Size distribution; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903883350     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-014-0258-x     Document Type: Article

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