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11 Dec 2009
Melting of major Glaciers in the western Himalayas: evidence of climatic changes from long term MSU derived tropospheric temperature trend (1979–2008)
A. K. Prasad
Department of Physics, Computational Science and Engineering, Schmid College of Science, Chapman University, Orange, CA 92866, USA
Center of Excellence in Earth Observing, Chapman University, Orange, CA 92866, USA
K.-H. S. Yang
Department of Physics, Computational Science and Engineering, Schmid College of Science, Chapman University, Orange, CA 92866, USA
Department of Biological Sciences, Schmid College of Science, Chapman University, Orange, CA 92866, USA
Center of Excellence in Earth Observing, Chapman University, Orange, CA 92866, USA
H. M. El-Askary
Department of Physics, Computational Science and Engineering, Schmid College of Science, Chapman University, Orange, CA 92866, USA
Center of Excellence in Earth Observing, Chapman University, Orange, CA 92866, USA
Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Moharem Bek, Alexandria, 21522, Egypt
National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Science (NARSS), Cairo, Egypt
M. Kafatos
Department of Physics, Computational Science and Engineering, Schmid College of Science, Chapman University, Orange, CA 92866, USA
Center of Excellence in Earth Observing, Chapman University, Orange, CA 92866, USA
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