Combined ICESat and CryoSat-2 altimetry for accessing water level dynamics of Tibetan lakes over 2003-2014

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 4685-4700

  Song, Chunqiao ^a,b   Ye, Qinghua ^a   Sheng, Yongwei ^b   Gong, Tongliang ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Observatory of the Weather Bureau in Tibet Autonomous Region   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; CryoSat 2; ICESat; Lake; Tibetan Plateau; Water balance

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; CLIMATE CHANGE; TIME SERIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER LEVELS;

CRYOSAT; ICESAT; LONG TERM OBSERVATIONS; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; TIBETAN PLATEAU; WATER BALANCE; WATER LEVEL CHANGES; WATER LEVEL DYNAMICS;

LAKES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CRYOSAT; GAUGE; ICESAT; LAKE WATER; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; WATER BUDGET; WATER LEVEL; WEATHER STATION;

CHANGTHANG PLATEAU; CHINA; GANGDISE MOUNTAINS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XIZANG;

EID: 84945128909     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w7094685     Document Type: Article

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