Glacier surging in the West Kunlun Shan
The cryosphere of High Mountain Asia represents the third-largest glacial system on Earth, with a glacierised area of ~40 800 km2 (Bolch et al., 2012) and a mass balance of -26 ± 12 Gt a-1: ~10% of the global contribution of the cryosphere to sea level rise (Vaughan et al., 2013). The glaciers of th...
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Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
2016
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.8759 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/263417 |