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Meteorological factors driving glacial till variation and the associated periglacial debris flows in Tianmo Valley, south-eastern Tibetan Plateau [1]

Meteorological studies have indicated that high alpine environments are strongly affected by climate warming, and periglacial debris flows are frequent in deglaciated regions. The combination of rainfall and air temperature controls the initiation of periglacial debris flows, and the addition of meltwater due to higher air temperatures enhances the complexity of the triggering mechanism compared to that of storm-induced debris flows. On the south-eastern Tibetan Plateau, where temperate glaciers are widely distributed, numerous periglacial debris flows have occurred over the past 100 years, but none occurred in the Tianmo watershed until 2007.

Original Source [2]

Publication Date: 
08/03/2017
Mingfeng Deng [3], Ningsheng Chen [4], Mei Liu [5]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences [6]
17
3
345–356
Tags:
Climate Change [7], Global Warming [8], Remote Sensing [9], Glacial Melt [10], Glaciers [11], Climate Impacts [12], Asia [13]
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[2] http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/17/345/2017/
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/mingfeng-deng
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/ningsheng-chen
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[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/remote-sensing
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/glacial-melt
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