Mass change of glaciers in Muztag Ata-Kongur Tagh, Eastern Pamir, China from 1971/76 to 2013/14 as derived from remote sensing data

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Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Zhang, Zhen ^a,b   Liu, Shiyin ^a   Wei, Junfeng ^c   Xu, Junli ^a,b   Guo, Wanqin ^a   Bao, Weijia ^a,b   Jiang, Zongli ^a,c  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c HUNAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLACIER; MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TELECOMMUNICATION; UNCERTAINTY; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE COVER; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR;

CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE COVER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84958191083     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147327     Document Type: Article

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