Brief Communication: Contending estimates of 2003-2008 glacier mass balance over the Pamir-Karakoram-Himalaya

Cryosphere

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 557-564

  Kaab A ^a   Treichler, D ^a   Nuth, C ^a   Berthier, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIER MASS BALANCE; ICESAT; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; VOLUME;

HIMALAYAS; KARAKORAM; PAMIRS;

EID: 84925351624     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-9-557-2015     Document Type: Article

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