Increasing glacial lake outburst flood hazard in response to surge glaciers in the Karakoram

NA Bazai, P Cui, PA Carling, H Wang, J Hassan… - Earth-Science …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Unlike glaciers in other parts of the world, Karakoram glaciers seem to be stable or gaining
in mass in response to global climate change, a phenomenon known as 'the Karakoram …

Paleoglaciation of the Tibetan Plateau and surrounding mountains based on exposure ages and ELA depression estimates

J Heyman - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Tibetan Plateau holds an ample record of past glaciations, and there is an
extensive set of glacial deposits dated by exposure dating. Here a compilation is presented …

Rapid worldwide growth of glacial lakes since 1990

DH Shugar, A Burr, UK Haritashya, JS Kargel… - Nature climate …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Glacial lakes are rapidly growing in response to climate change and glacier retreat. The role
of these lakes as terrestrial storage for glacial meltwater is currently unknown and not …

Asia's shrinking glaciers protect large populations from drought stress

HD Pritchard - Nature, 2019‏ - nature.com
About 800 million people depend in part on meltwater from the thousands of glaciers in the
high mountains of Asia. Water stress makes this region vulnerable to drought, but glaciers …

Importance of snow and glacier meltwater for agriculture on the Indo-Gangetic Plain

H Biemans, C Siderius, AF Lutz, S Nepal… - Nature …, 2019‏ - nature.com
Densely populated floodplains downstream of Asia's mountain ranges depend heavily on
mountain water resources, in particular for irrigation. An intensive and complex multi …

Global-scale hydrological response to future glacier mass loss

M Huss, R Hock - Nature Climate Change, 2018‏ - nature.com
Worldwide glacier retreat and associated future runoff changes raise major concerns over
the sustainability of global water resources,,–, but global-scale assessments of glacier …

Consistent increase in High Asia's runoff due to increasing glacier melt and precipitation

AF Lutz, WW Immerzeel, AB Shrestha… - Nature Climate …, 2014‏ - nature.com
Rivers originating in the high mountains of Asia are among the most meltwater-dependent
river systems on Earth, yet large human populations depend on their resources downstream …

Geomorphic and geologic controls of geohazards induced by Nepal's 2015 Gorkha earthquake

JS Kargel, GJ Leonard, DH Shugar, UK Haritashya… - Science, 2016‏ - science.org
INTRODUCTION On 25 April 2015, the Gorkha earthquake [magnitude (M) 7.8] struck Nepal,
followed by five aftershocks of≥ M 6.0 until 10 June 2015. The earthquakes killed~ 9000 …

A new model for global glacier change and sea-level rise

M Huss, R Hock - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2015‏ - frontiersin.org
The anticipated retreat of glaciers around the globe will pose far-reaching challenges to the
management of fresh water resources and significantly contribute to sea-level rise within the …

Unchanged frequency of moraine-dammed glacial lake outburst floods in the Himalaya

G Veh, O Korup, S von Specht, S Roessner… - Nature Climate …, 2019‏ - nature.com
Shrinking glaciers in the Hindu Kush–Karakoram–Himalaya–Nyainqentanglha (HKKHN)
region have formed several thousand moraine-dammed glacial lakes,–, some of these …