Slight glacier mass loss in the Karakoram region during the 1970s to 2000 revealed by KH-9 images and SRTM DEM

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 63, Issue 238, 2017, Pages 331-342

  Zhou, Yushan ^a   Li, Zhiwei ^a   Li, Jia ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

glacier mass balance; remote sensing; surface mass budget

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; IMAGING METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

KARAKORAM;

EID: 85014714308     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jog.2016.142     Document Type: Article

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