Lake seasonality across the Tibetan Plateau and their varying relationship with regional mass changes and local hydrology

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 892-900

  Lei, Yanbin ^a,b   Yao, Tandong ^a,b   Yang, Kun ^a,b   Sheng, Yongwei ^c   Kleinherenbrink, Marcel ^d   Yi, Shuang ^e   Bird, Broxton W ^f   Zhang, Xiaowen ^a   Zhu, La ^a   Zhang, Guoqing ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^f INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cryosphere hydrolgoy; lake seasonality; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; LAKES;

CRYOSPHERE; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; MONSOON PRECIPITATION; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEASONAL DYNAMICS; SEASONALITY; TIBETAN PLATEAU; WARM SEASONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CRYOSPHERE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GRAVIMETRY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAKE LEVEL; LAKE WATER; MELTING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEASONALITY;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 85010496554     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL072062     Document Type: Article

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