Shifts in water-level variation of Namco in the central Tibetan Plateau from ICESat and CryoSat-2 altimetry and station observations

Science Bulletin

Volumn 60, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 1287-1297

  Song, Chunqiao ^a,b   Ye, Qinghua ^a   Cheng, Xiao ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; CryoSat 2; ICESat; Lake; Satellite altimetry; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941075405     PISSN: 20959273     EISSN: 20959281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-015-0826-8     Document Type: Article

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