High Mountain Asian glacier response to climate revealed by multi-temporal satellite observations since the 1960s

A Bhattacharya, T Bolch, K Mukherjee, O King… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Knowledge about the long-term response of High Mountain Asian glaciers to
climatic variations is paramount because of their important role in sustaining Asian river flow …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution and controls of large glacial lakes in the Nepal Himalaya

UK Haritashya, JS Kargel, DH Shugar, GJ Leonard… - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Glacier recession driven by climate change produces glacial lakes, some of which are
hazardous. Our study assesses the evolution of three of the most hazardous moraine …

Mass loss from calving in Himalayan proglacial lakes

CS Watson, JS Kargel, DH Shugar… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The formation and expansion of Himalayan glacial lakes has implications for glacier
dynamics, mass balance and glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs). Subaerial and …

Lived experiences of 'peak water'in the high mountains of Nepal and Peru

G McDowell, M Koppes, L Harris… - Climate and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Peak water describes the hydrological response of glacier-fed rivers to climate change,
indicating that warming first drives increasing discharge until a glacier mass loss threshold is …

Which heterogeneous glacier melting patterns can be robustly observed from space? A multi-scale assessment in southeastern Tibetan Plateau

L Ke, C Song, B Yong, Y Lei, X Ding - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Region-wide investigation of glacier change in High Mountain Asia marked the strongest
recession in southeastern Tibetan Plateau (SETP) in recent decades. However, evident …

[HTML][HTML] Glacier and rock glacier changes since the 1950s in the La Laguna catchment, Chile

BA Robson, S MacDonell, Á Ayala, T Bolch… - The …, 2022 - tc.copernicus.org
Glaciers and rock glaciers play an important role in the hydrology of the semi-arid northern
Chile. Several studies show that glaciers have rapidly lost mass in response to climate …

Long‐term spatiotemporal variability in the surface velocity of Eastern Himalayan glaciers, India

S Kaushik, T Singh, A Bhardwaj… - Earth Surface Processes …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Investigation of spatiotemporal variation in glacier velocity is imperative to comprehend
glacier mass and volume loss as a function of their sensitivity to climate change. The long …

[HTML][HTML] Glacier change, supraglacial debris expansion and glacial lake evolution in the Gyirong River Basin, Central Himalayas, between 1988 and 2015

S Jiang, Y Nie, Q Liu, J Wang, L Liu, J Hassan, X Liu… - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Himalayan glacier changes in the context of global climate change have attracted worldwide
attention due to their profound cryo-hydrological ramifications. However, an integrated …

Spatiotemporal variability of glacier changes and their controlling factors in the Kanchenjunga region, Himalaya based on multi-source remote sensing data from 1975 …

X Zhao, X Wang, J Wei, Z Jiang, Y Zhang… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Spatio-temporal behavior of glaciers in the Himalayas has varied greatly in response to
reported climate warming and other modulating factors such as topography, debris cover …

Four decades of glacier and glacial Lake dynamics in Kishtwar high altitude National Park, Chenab Basin, Jammu and Kashmir, India

SK Rai, R Sahu, S Dhar, A Kumar - Modeling Earth Systems and …, 2024 - Springer
The Himalayan region is experiencing a heightened risk in downstream habitats due to the
effects of climate change, which include rapid glacier recession, the formation of glacial …