Glacier changes in the Qilian Mountains in the past half century: Based on the revised First and Second Chinese Glacier Inventory

Dili Xuebao/Acta Geographica Sinica

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1402-1414

  Sun, Meiping ^a,b   Liu, Shiyin ^b   Yao, Xiaojun ^a   Guo, Wanqin ^b   Xu, Junli ^b  

^a NORTHWEST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Glacier; Glacier inventory; Glacier volume; Qilian Mountains

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; ALTITUDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; LANDSAT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SLOPE; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; VOLUME CHANGE; WATERSHED;

CHINA; GANSU; HEI RIVER; QILIAN MOUNTAINS; SHULE RIVER;

EID: 84961695946     PISSN: 03755444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11821/dlxb201509004     Document Type: Article

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