Articles | Volume 9, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-1213-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-1213-2015
Research article
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15 Jun 2015
Research article |  | 15 Jun 2015

Dramatic loss of glacier accumulation area on the Tibetan Plateau revealed by ice core tritium and mercury records

S. Kang, F. Wang, U. Morgenstern, Y. Zhang, B. Grigholm, S. Kaspari, M. Schwikowski, J. Ren, T. Yao, D. Qin, and P. A. Mayewski

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