Meanwhile, the snow areas showed an increasing trend in West Tienshan Mountains, where the maximum and minimum snow cover areas increased at rates of 2.3 km 2 /a and 16 km 2 /a, respectively, or 0.01% and 4.8% ( Fig. 2b ).
2
—
—
The sentences
The results indicated that the snow cover area showed a decreasing trend in most parts of the Tienshan Mountains during 2002–2013 ( Fig. 2a ).