Toward mountains without permanent snow and ice

M Huss, B Bookhagen, C Huggel, D Jacobsen… - Earth's …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The cryosphere in mountain regions is rapidly declining, a trend that is expected to
accelerate over the next several decades due to anthropogenic climate change. A cascade …

Monsoon controls on sediment generation and transport: Mass budget and provenance constraints from the Indus River catchment, delta and submarine fan over …

PD Clift, TN Jonell - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
How well do deep-sea sedimentary archives track erosion in upland sources, driven by
climatic change or tectonic forcing? Located on the western edge of South Asian monsoon …

Toward a complete Himalayan hydrological budget: Spatiotemporal distribution of snowmelt and rainfall and their impact on river discharge

B Bookhagen, DW Burbank - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The hydrological budget of Himalayan rivers is dominated by monsoonal rainfall and
snowmelt, but their relative impact is not well established because this remote region lacks a …

Fluvial landscapes of the Harappan civilization

L Giosan, PD Clift, MG Macklin… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
The collapse of the Bronze Age Harappan, one of the earliest urban civilizations, remains an
enigma. Urbanism flourished in the western region of the Indo-Gangetic Plain for …

Analysis of spatial and temporal extreme monsoonal rainfall over South Asia using complex networks

N Malik, B Bookhagen, N Marwan, J Kurths - Climate dynamics, 2012 - Springer
We present a detailed analysis of summer monsoon rainfall over the Indian peninsular using
nonlinear spatial correlations. This analysis is carried out employing the tools of complex …

Evaluation of precipitation data sets along the Himalayan front

C Andermann, S Bonnet… - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Precipitation is one of the main factors which controls surface processes and landscape
morphology. Large orogenic belts such as the Himalayas control precipitation distribution as …

Tectonic control on 10Be‐derived erosion rates in the Garhwal Himalaya, India

D Scherler, B Bookhagen… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Erosion in the Himalaya is responsible for one of the greatest mass redistributions on Earth
and has fueled models of feedback loops between climate and tectonics. Although the …

Processes governing the mass balance of Chhota Shigri Glacier (western Himalaya, India) assessed by point-scale surface energy balance measurements

MF Azam, P Wagnon, C Vincent, AL Ramanathan… - The …, 2014 - tc.copernicus.org
Some recent studies revealed that Himalayan glaciers were shrinking at an accelerated rate
since the beginning of the 21st century. However, the climatic causes for this shrinkage …

Reconstruction of the annual mass balance of Chhota Shigri glacier, Western Himalaya, India, since 1969

MF Azam, P Wagnon, C Vincent, A Ramanathan… - Annals of …, 2014 - cambridge.org
This study presents a reconstruction of the mass balance (MB) of Chhota Shigri glacier,
Western Himalaya, India, and discusses the regional climatic drivers responsible for its …

Hillslope‐glacier coupling: The interplay of topography and glacial dynamics in High Asia

D Scherler, B Bookhagen… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
High Asian glacial landscapes have large variations in topographic relief and the size and
steepness of snow accumulation areas. Associated differences in glacial cover and …