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DOI	10.3390/w11030623
	Glacier Changes in the Qilian Mountains, Northwest China, between the 1960s and 2015
	He, Jing 1,2; Wang, Ninglian 1,2,3; Chen, An’an 1,2; Yang, Xuewen 1,2; Hua, Ting 1,2
通讯作者	Wang, Ninglian
来源期刊	WATER
ISSN	2073-4441
出版年	2019
卷号	11 期号:3
英文摘要	Glaciers in the Qilian Mountains are important sources of fresh-water for sustainable development in the Hexi Corridor in the arid northwest China. Over the last few decades, glaciers have generally shrunk across the globe due to climate warming. In order to understand the current state of glaciers in the Qilian Mountains, we compiled a new inventory of glaciers in the region using Landsat Operational Land Imager (OLI) images acquired in 2015, and identified 2748 glaciers that covered an area of 1539.30 +/- 49.50 km(2) with an ice volume of 81.69 +/- 7.40 km(3), among which the Shule River basin occupied the largest portion of glaciers (24.8% in number, 32.3% in area, and 35.6% in ice volume). In comparison to previous inventories, glacier area was found to shrink by 396.89 km(2) (20.5%) in total, and 109 glaciers with an area of 8.94 km(2) disappeared over the period from the 1960s to 2015. This situation was primarily caused by the increase in air temperature, and also related with the size of glacier and some local topographic parameters. In addition, the change of glaciers in the Qilian Mountains showed a distinct spatial pattern, i.e., their shrinking rate was large in the east and small in the west.
英文关键词	glacier changes the Qilian Mountains climate factors
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	Peoples R China
开放获取类型	gold, Green Submitted
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000464528500006
WOS关键词	LAND ICE MEASUREMENTS ; INVENTORY DATA ; RECOMMENDATIONS ; CHALLENGES ; SHRINKAGE ; BASIN
WOS类目	Environmental Sciences ; Water Resources
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Water Resources
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/219189
作者单位	1.Northwest Univ, Coll Urban & Environm Sci, Shaanxi Key Lab Earth Surface Syst & Environm Car, Xian 710127, Shaanxi, Peoples R China; 2.Northwest Univ, Coll Urban & Environm Sci, Inst Earth Surface Syst & Hazards, Xian 710127, Shaanxi, Peoples R China; 3.CAS Ctr Excellence Tibetan Plateau Earth Sci, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	He, Jing,Wang, Ninglian,Chen, An’an,et al. Glacier Changes in the Qilian Mountains, Northwest China, between the 1960s and 2015[J],2019,11(3).
APA	He, Jing,Wang, Ninglian,Chen, An’an,Yang, Xuewen,&Hua, Ting.(2019).Glacier Changes in the Qilian Mountains, Northwest China, between the 1960s and 2015.WATER,11(3).
MLA	He, Jing,et al."Glacier Changes in the Qilian Mountains, Northwest China, between the 1960s and 2015".WATER 11.3(2019).