Increased water storage in the Qaidam Basin, the North Tibet Plateau from GRACE Gravity Data

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Jiao, Jiu Jimmy ^a   Zhang, Xiaotao ^a   Liu, Yi ^a   Kuang, Xingxing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER; SNOW;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGLACIATION; EVAPORATION; LATITUDE; PRECIPITATION; SOIL CHANGE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOLAR RADIATION; TERRESTRIAL SURFACE WATERS; WATER CYCLE; WATER SUPPLY; CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GRAVITY; RIVER; TIBET;

CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GRAVITATION; GROUNDWATER; RIVERS; SNOW; TIBET;

EID: 84949604519     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141442     Document Type: Article

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