Monsoon Precipitation Decrease Due to Black Carbon Also Causes Glacier Mass Decline over the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau

Overview

Journal Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Specialty Science

Date 2023 Mar 13

PMID 36913581

Authors

Junhua Yang

Robert R Gillies

Shichang Kang

Rongjun Wang

Zhen Zhang

Yuling Hu

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Citing Articles

Reply to Yang et al.: Global warming and black carbon simultaneously lead to glacier mass decline over the southeastern Tibetan Plateau.

Jouberton A, Miles E, Shaw T, McCarthy M, Fugger S, Pellicciotti F Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023; 120(12):e2301467120.

PMID: 36913583 PMC: 10041106. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2301467120.

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