Glaciohydrology of the himalaya-karakoram

MF Azam, JS Kargel, JM Shea, S Nepal, UK Haritashya… - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND The Himalayan-Karakoram (HK) region in south Asia is one of the most
heavily glacierized and vulnerable mountainous regions on Earth. The Indus, Ganges, and …

Challenges in understanding the variability of the cryosphere in the Himalaya and its impact on regional water resources

BD Vishwakarma, R Ramsankaran, MF Azam… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The Himalaya plays a vital role in regulating the freshwater availability for nearly a billion
people living in the Indus, Ganga, and Brahmaputra River basins. Due to climate change …

Climate change decisive for Asia's snow meltwater supply

PDA Kraaijenbrink, EE Stigter, T Yao… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Streamflow in high-mountain Asia is influenced by meltwater from snow and glaciers, and
determining impacts of climate change on the region's cryosphere is essential to understand …

[HTML][HTML] Going to extremes: installing the world's highest weather stations on Mount Everest

T Matthews, LB Perry, I Koch, D Aryal… - Bulletin of the …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Going to Extremes: Installing the World’s Highest Weather Stations on Mount Everest in:
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Volume 101 Issue 11 (2020) Jump to …

Understanding the interrelationships among mass balance, meteorology, discharge and surface velocity on Chhota Shigri Glacier over 2002–2019 using in situ …

A Mandal, A Ramanathan, MF Azam, T Angchuk… - Journal of …, 2020 - cambridge.org
The Himalayan glaciers contribute significantly to regional water resources. However,
limited field observations restrict our understanding of glacier dynamics and behaviour …

Assessing glacier retreat and its impact on water resources in a headwater of Yangtze River based on CMIP6 projections

H Gao, Z Feng, T Zhang, Y Wang, X He, H Li… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Glacier retreat caused by global warming alters the hydrological regime and poses far-
reaching challenges to water resources and nature conservation of the headwater of …

Mt. Everest's highest glacier is a sentinel for accelerating ice loss

M Potocki, PA Mayewski, T Matthews… - NPJ Climate and …, 2022 - nature.com
Mountain glacier systems are decreasing in volume worldwide yet relatively little is known
about their upper reaches (> 5000 m). Here we show, based on the world's highest ice core …

Mass balance and runoff modelling of partially debris-covered Dokriani Glacier in monsoon-dominated Himalaya using ERA5 data since 1979

MF Azam, S Srivastava - Journal of Hydrology, 2020 - Elsevier
Glacier-wide mass balance and catchment-wide runoff were reconstructed over 1979–2018
for Dokriani Glacier catchment in Garhwal Himalaya (India). A glacier mass balance-runoff …

Glacier albedo reduction and drought effects in the extratropical Andes, 1986–2020

TE Shaw, G Ulloa, D Farías-Barahona… - Journal of …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Surface albedo typically dominates the mass balance of mountain glaciers, though long-
term trends and patterns of glacier albedo are seldom explored. We calculated broadband …

Reanalysing the 2007–19 glaciological mass-balance series of Mera Glacier, Nepal, Central Himalaya, using geodetic mass balance

P Wagnon, F Brun, A Khadka, E Berthier… - Journal of …, 2021 - cambridge.org
The 2007–19 glaciological mass-balance series of Mera Glacier in the Everest Region, East
Nepal, is reanalysed using the geodetic mass balance assessed by differencing two DEMs …