Can mountain glacier melting explains the GRACE-observed mass loss in the southeast Tibetan Plateau: From a climate perspective?

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 124, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-9

  Song, Chunqiao ^a,c   Ke, Linghong ^b   Huang, Bo ^a   Richards, Keith S ^c  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Glacier; Satellite altimetry; Satellite gravimetry; Tibetan Plateau; Water balance

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIGITAL STORAGE; GLACIERS; GRAVIMETERS; GRAVITATION; LANDFORMS; SATELLITES;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE GRAVIMETRIES; TIBETAN PLATEAU; WATER BALANCE;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CRYOSPHERE; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; GRACE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MELTING; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; WATER BUDGET; WATER STORAGE;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84911201774     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2014.11.001     Document Type: Article

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