Region-wide glacier mass budgets and area changes for the Central Tien Shan between ~1975 and 1999 using Hexagon KH-9 imagery

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 128, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-13

  Pieczonka, Tino ^a   Bolch, Tobias ^a,b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Central Tien Shan; Change assessment; Geodetic glacier mass budget; Glacier area change; KH 9 Hexagon; Sary Djaz Aksu

Indexed keywords

GEODESY; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHRINKAGE;

AREA-CHANGES; CENTRAL TIEN SHAN; CHANGE ASSESSMENT; KH-9 HEXAGON; MASS BUDGET; SARY-DJAZ/AKSU;

BUDGET CONTROL;

DEBRIS FLOW; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; GEODETIC NETWORK; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; MELTWATER; RUNOFF; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

AKSU RIVER; CHINA; TAKLIMAKAN DESERT; TARIM RIVER; TIEN SHAN; TURKEY; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 84923058422     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2014.11.014     Document Type: Article

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