Impact of a global temperature rise of 1.5 degrees Celsius on Asia's glaciers

Nature

Volumn 549, Issue 7671, 2017, Pages 257-260

  Kraaijenbrink, P D A ^a   Bierkens, M F P ^b   Lutz, A F ^c,d   Immerzeel, W W ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^c FutureWater Wageningen   (Netherlands)

^d International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; GLACIER; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; GLACIER RETREAT; GLOBAL WARMING; INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; MOUNTAIN REGION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WATER MANAGEMENT;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; ASIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEGLACIATION; GLACIER; MASS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATIVE FORCING; WARMING; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY; ALTITUDE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; ICE COVER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TEMPERATURE;

ASIA;

ALTITUDE; ASIA; GLOBAL WARMING; ICE COVER; TEMPERATURE; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 85030775850     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature23878     Document Type: Article

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