Global warming-induced melting and thawing of the cryosphere are severely altering the
volume and timing of water supplied from High Mountain Asia, adversely affecting …

Warming amplification over the Arctic Pole (AP hereafter) and Third Pole (Tibetan Plateau,
TP hereafter) can trigger a series of climate responses and have global consequences …

Glacier collapse is a fairly new type of glacier-related disasters on the Asian Water Towers
(AWTs) in the warming climate. On 16 October and 29 October 2018, two glacier collapses …

Mountains are highly diverse in areal extent, geological and climatic context, ecosystems
and human activity. As such, mountain environments worldwide are particularly sensitive to …

With the expansion of engineering activities, numerous major projects are gradually
emerging in frozen soil regions. However, due to the unique engineering properties of …

Global glacial lakes have expanded markedly in recent decades, accompanied by many
catastrophic glacial lake outburst floods. However, our understanding of glacial lake …

Over the past decade, research on the impacts of climate change on immovable cultural
heritage (ICH) in the polar regions (Arctic and Antarctica) has slowly increased. This article …

Flood prediction has advanced significantly in terms of technique and capacity to achieve
policymakers' objectives of accurate forecast and identification of flood-prone and impacted …

Abstract Vegetation dynamics in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) have been debated in recent
decades. Most studies suggest that wetter and warmer climatic conditions would release low …

Quantifying uncertainty in runoff changes has profound implications for future runoff
investigations and will support global climate model improvement. We analyze the runoff …