Modulation of snow reflectance and snowmelt from Central Asian glaciers by anthropogenic black carbon

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Schmale, Julia ^a,b   Flanner, Mark ^c   Kang, Shichang ^d,e   Sprenger, Michael ^f   Zhang, Qianggong ^e,g   Guo, Junming ^g   Li, Yang ^g   Schwikowski, Margit ^b   Farinotti, Daniel ^h,i,j  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED SUSTAINABILITY STUDIES   (Germany)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^e CAS CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN TIBETAN PLATEAU EARTH SCIENCES   (China)

^f ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^g INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^h SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

ⁱ GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^j ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 85009508810     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep40501     Document Type: Article

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