Evaluation of glacier changes in high-mountain Asia based on 10 year GRACE RL05 models

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2504-2517

  Yi, Shuang ^a   Sun, Wenke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

glacier change; high mountain Asia; ice melting; SADI; space domain inverse; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GRACE; MELTING; NUMERICAL MODEL;

CHINA; KARAKORAM; PAMIRS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84911178133     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JB010860     Document Type: Article

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