J Arid Land (2015) 7(5): 687–695 doi: 10.1007/s40333-015-0083-3 jal.xjegi.com; www.springer.com/40333
Nina K KONONOVA1, Nina V PIMANKINA2, Lyudmila A YERISKOVSKAYA2, LI Jing3, BAO Weijia3, LIU Shiyin3∗
1 Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117312, Russia;
2 Institute of Geography, Ministry of Education and Science, Almaty 050010, Kazakhstan;
3 State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China