Glacier change in the Karatal river basin, Zhetysu (Dzhungar) Alatau, Kazakhstan

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 57, Issue 71, 2016, Pages 11-19

  Kaldybayev, Azamat ^a,b   Chen, Yaning ^a   Vilesov, Evgeniy ^c  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c AL FARABI KAZAKH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Kazakhstan)

Author keywords

Climate change; Glacier mapping; Glacier shrinkage; Mountain glaciers; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SHRINKAGE;

ALATAW MOUNTAINS; KARATAL BASIN; KAZAKHSTAN;

EID: 84941695300     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/2016AoG71A005     Document Type: Article

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