Recent advances in the remote sensing of alpine snow: A review

S Awasthi, D Varade - GIScience & Remote Sensing, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Seasonal alpine snow contributes significantly to the water resource. It plays a crucial role in
regulating the environmental feedback and from the perspective of socio-economic …

IMDAA: High-resolution satellite-era reanalysis for the Indian monsoon region

SI Rani, T Arulalan, JP George… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
A high-resolution regional reanalysis of the Indian Monsoon Data Assimilation and Analysis
(IMDAA) project is made available to researchers for deeper understanding of the Indian …

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 …

Passive microwave remote sensing of snow depth: Techniques, challenges and future directions

S Tanniru, R Ramsankaran - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Monitoring snowpack depth is essential in many applications at regional and global scales.
Space-borne passive microwave (PMW) remote sensing observations have been widely …

[HTML][HTML] Snowmelt-driven streamflow prediction using machine learning techniques (LSTM, NARX, GPR, and SVR)

S Thapa, Z Zhao, B Li, L Lu, D Fu, X Shi, B Tang, H Qi - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
Although machine learning (ML) techniques are increasingly popular in water resource
studies, they are not extensively utilized in modeling snowmelt. In this study, we developed a …

Spatiotemporal distribution of seasonal snow water equivalent in High-Mountain Asia from an 18-year Landsat-MODIS era snow reanalysis dataset

Y Liu, Y Fang, SA Margulis - The Cryosphere Discussions, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
Seasonal snowpack is a key water resource and plays an important role in regional climate.
However, how seasonal snow mass is distributed over space and time is not fully …

11-year record of wintertime snow surface energy balance and sublimation at 4863 m asl on Chhota Shigri Glacier moraine (western Himalaya, India)

A Mandal, T Angchuk, MF Azam… - The Cryosphere …, 2022 - tc.copernicus.org
Analysis of surface energy balance (SEB) at the glacier surface is the most comprehensive
way to explain the atmosphere-glacier interactions but that requires extensive data. In this …

[HTML][HTML] Precipitation characteristics and moisture source regions on Mt. Everest in the Khumbu, Nepal

LB Perry, T Matthews, H Guy, I Koch, A Khadka… - One Earth, 2020 - cell.com
Precipitation is critical to the water towers of the Hindu Kush-Himalaya-Karakoram region,
exerting an important control on glacier mass balance and the water resources for 1.65 …

Artificial trends or real changes? Investigating precipitation records in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard

O Champagne, O Zolina, JP Dedieu… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Svalbard archipelago, in the Atlantic–Arctic region, has been affected by a strong
increase in precipitation in the last decades, with major potential impacts for the cryosphere …

[HTML][HTML] Energy and mass balance dynamics of the seasonal snowpack at two high-altitude sites in the Himalaya

EE Stigter, JF Steiner, I Koch, TM Saloranta… - Cold Regions Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Snow dynamics play a crucial role in the hydrology of alpine catchments in the Himalaya.
However, studies based on in-situ observations that elucidate the energy and mass balance …