Recent accelerating mass loss of southeast Tibetan glaciers and the relationship with changes in macroscale atmospheric circulations

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 47, Issue 3-4, 2016, Pages 805-815

  Yang, Wei ^a,b   Guo, Xiaofeng ^c   Yao, Tandong ^a,b   Zhu, Meilin ^a   Wang, Yongjie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CAS CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN TIBETAN PLATEAU EARTH SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Glacier mass balance; Macroscale atmospheric circulations; Southeast Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; ENERGY BALANCE; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; MONSOON; RECONSTRUCTION; TELECONNECTION;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; TIEN SHAN; XIZANG;

EID: 84945157250     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2872-y     Document Type: Article

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