A less or more dusty future in the Northern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau?

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Liu, Xingqi ^a,b   Yu, Zhitong ^c,d,e   Dong, Hailiang ^f,g   Chen, Huei Fen ^h  

^a CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^c XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^e XINJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^g MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHINA; HEMISPHERE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LAKE SEDIMENT; PAKISTAN; SUMMER; WINTER;

EID: 84946842320     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06672     Document Type: Article

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