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2018 Glacier Inventory of Alaska Dataset Is Released
2018 Glacier Inventory of Alaska was formally released by the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Lanzhou on Dec. 22. It updates the glacial distribution data of Alaska.
2019-12-23 -
Scientists Reveal the Morphological and Sedimentary Characteristics of Dome Dunes
Oval dome dunes, which lack a slipface, represent a specific phase of barchan dune evolution that has undergone distinctive morphodynamic processes.
2019-12-19 -
Forest Fires Affect Distributive Features of Soil Carbon and Nutrients in Permafrost Regions
Forest fires have important influences on chemical properties of soils in permafrost regions, and changes in soil characteristics affected by forest fires are related with fire severity and post-fire recovery time.
2019-12-02 -
Scientists Quantify Driving Factors on NDVI in Oasis-Desert Ecotone
Within oasis-desert ecotone regions, the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) is an important parameter for evaluating the growth of vegetation.
2019-11-19 -
Scientists Analyze the Wind Regime for Long-Ridge Yardangs in the Northwestern Qaidam Basin
Yardangs are typical aeolian erosion landforms, which are attracting more and more attention of geomorphologists and geologists for their various morphology and enigmatic formation mechanisms.
2019-11-11 -
Scientists Reveal Domino Effect of Climate Change Over Two Millennia in Ancient China's Hexi Corridor
Climate change, population growth and extreme events can trigger social crises and instability. The processes that dominate a society’s emergence, resilience and collapse, and the complex interactions among such processes, operating within a small region, at a multicentury or even larger time scale, remain to be id...
2019-10-15 -
Scientists Reveal Relations Between Annual Herb Plant Community Characteristics and Increased Precipitation and Reduced Wind Velocity
Recently, scientists from Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences examined the effects of increased precipitation and reduced wind velocity on annual herb plant community characteristics via a manipulative experiment from the middle of April to middle of August...
2019-10-12 -
Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry Assists to Monitor Small-Scale Landslides in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Landslides are one of the major geohazards in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and have recently increased in both frequency and size.
2019-10-08
