Light-absorbing impurities enhance glacier albedo reduction in the southeastern Tibetan plateau

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 122, Issue 13, 2017, Pages 6915-6933

  Zhang, Yulan ^a   Kang, Shichang ^a,b   Cong, Zhiyuan ^b,c   Schmale, Julia ^d   Sprenger, Michael ^e   Li, Chaoliu ^b,c   Yang, Wei ^b,c   Gao, Tanguang ^f   Sillanpää, Mika ^g,h   Li, Xiaofei ^a   Liu, Yajun ^a   Chen, Pengfei ^c   Zhang, Xuelei ⁱ  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

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

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^f LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^h Florida International University   (United States)

ⁱ NORTHEAST INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BLACK CARBON; DATA SET; DUST; GLACIER; MONSOON; ORGANIC CARBON; RADIATIVE FORCING; SNOW; SNOWMELT;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 85023199033     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016JD026397     Document Type: Article

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