the funding support provided by the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,Centre of Excellence in Climate Studies(IITB-CECS)project of the Department of Science and Technology(DST),New Delhi,India。
This article reports modeled ice thickness distribution and total ice volume of the 65 selected glaciers(>0.5 km^2)of Chandra basin,located in the Western Himalayas.This is a first-of-its-kind study that gives detaile...
Major Directionality Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KZCXZ-YW-317);Key Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 90511007);National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2007CB411201);Innovative Research International Partnership Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CXTD-Z2005-2);Project for Outstanding Young Scientists of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40121101).
Great change, associated with global warming, has occurred at the Hailuogou (海螺沟) glacier, Mt. Gongga (贡嘎), China, since the early 20th century. Various data indicate that the glacier has retreated 1 822 m in...
This study was jointly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 49871022); the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KZ951-A1-402-03)llTianshan Gla-ciological Station and the Chinese Postdoctoral Research Foundation.
Formate (HCOO-), acetate (CH3COO-), oxalate (C2O42-) and pyruvate ((CO)C2O42-) are detected in a 14.08-m-long ice core recovered in Glacier 1 at the Urumqi riverhead, Tianshan, China, which is a mid-latitude alpine gl...
Ⅰ. INTRODUCTION Investigation of Antarctic glaciers by Chinese researchers began in 1982 at Law Dome Ice Cap in the north of Wilks Land, Eastern Antarctica. In this ice cap, the entire sequence of glacier zones has b...
the National Key Basic Research Project(Grant No.2000078502); the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.40231011).
Using the CCM3 global climate model of National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), this paper comparatively analyzes the characteristics of East Asian monsoon and surface water condition and the expansion of glac...
funded by National Basic Research Program of China (2010CB951003);Opening Fund of Key Laboratory of Oasis Ecology and Desert Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
The causes of the disappearance of the ancient town of Loulan in Xinjiang, China have been generally agreed to derive from two factors: human activities and natural factors (environmental variations). In this paper, t...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 41201065, 41121001, 41261017, 41171057, 41161012);Funds for Creative Research Groups of China (No. 41121001);the Foundation for Excellent Youth Scholars of CAREERI, CAS (No. 51Y251B51);the SKLCS Foundation (No. SKLCSZZ-2012-01-01);the National Basic Research Program of China (Nos. 2010CB951003, 2010CB951404);the Knowledge Innovation Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. KZCX2-EW-311)
Aerosol samples were collected in the Shiyi Glacier, Qilian Mountains from July 24 to August 19, 2012 and analyzed for major water-soluble ionic species(F-, Cl-, NO2-, NO3-, SO42-, Na+, NH4+, K+, Mg2+and Ca2+) by ion ...