Accelerated glacier shrinkage in the Ak-Shyirak massif, Inner Tien Shan, during 2003-2013

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 562, Issue , 2016, Pages 364-378

  Petrakov, Dmitry ^a   Shpuntova, Alyona ^a   Aleinikov, Alexandr ^b   Kääb, Andreas ^c   Kutuzov, Stanislav ^d   Lavrentiev, Ivan ^d   Stoffel, Markus ^e,f   Tutubalina, Olga ^a   Usubaliev, Ryskul ^g  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b ScanEx Research and Development Center   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^g Central Asian Institute of Applied Geosciences (CAIAG)   (Kyrgyzstan)

Author keywords

GlabTop modelling; Glacier area change; Glacier volume; Ice thickness; Remote sensing; Technogenic impact on glaciers; The Ak Shyirak massif; Tien Shan

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC GEOLOGY; OPEN PIT MINING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHRINKAGE; WATER RESOURCES;

AREA-CHANGES; ICE THICKNESS; TECHNOGENIC IMPACT; THE AK-SHYIRAK MASSIF; TIEN SHAN;

ICE;

GLACIER; ICE THICKNESS; MODELING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHRINKAGE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEGLACIATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; KYRGYZSTAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE MINING;

TIEN SHAN;

EID: 84963784801     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.162     Document Type: Article

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