Anthropogenic climate change drives melting of glaciers in the Himalaya

SA Romshoo, KO Murtaza, W Shah, T Ramzan… - … Science and Pollution …, 2022 - Springer
The Himalayan glaciers provide water to a large population in south Asia for a variety of
purposes and ecosystem services. As a result, regional monitoring of glacier melting and …

Mass balance of Nehnar glacier from 2000 to 2020, using temperature indexed-IAAR approach

WA Bhat, IA Bhat, P Ahmed, MU Shafiq… - … Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
Glacier mass balance is inextricably linked to annual meteorological conditions and is a key
indicator for assessing the ice reserves of a glacier. As a result, a number of studies have …

Towards understanding various influences on mass balance of the Hoksar Glacier in the Upper Indus Basin using observations

SA Romshoo, KO Murtaza, T Abdullah - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Mass balance is a good indicator of glacier health and sensitivity to climate change. The
debris-covered Hoksar Glacier (HG) in the Upper Indus Basin (UIB) was studied using direct …

Bacterial diversity and biopotentials of Hamtah glacier cryoconites, Himalaya

P Singh, SM Singh, T Segawa, PK Singh - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Cryoconite is a granular structure present on the glaciers and ice sheets found in polar
regions including the Himalayas. It is composed of organic and inorganic matter which …

Factors controlling the net ecosystem production of cryoconite on Western Himalayan glaciers

MS Shamurailatpam, J Telling, JL Wadham… - Biogeochemistry, 2023 - Springer
In situ experiments were conducted to determine the net ecosystem production (NEP) in
cryoconite holes from the surface of two glaciers (Patsio glacier and Chhota Shigri glacier) in …

Spatiotemporal variation in surface velocity in Chandra basin glacier between 1999 and 2017 using Landsat-7 and Landsat-8 imagery

R Sahu, RD Gupta - Geocarto International, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Glacier surface velocity is one of the main parameters of the glaciers used to interpret the
glacier dynamics. In the present research paper, surface velocity of four glaciers, namely …

Heterogeneity in glacier area loss in response to climate change in selected basins of western Himalaya

RA Mir, Z Majeed, R Ahmed, SK Jain… - Climate change and …, 2023 - Springer
Himalayan glaciers are characterized to exhibit heterogeneous and variable changes in
areal loss. To understand this erratic behavior of Himalayan glaciers six major sub-basins …

Decoding the morphological differences between himalayan glacial and fluvial landscapes using multifractal analysis

S Dutta - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Himalayas is the home to nearly 10,000 glaciers which are mostly located at high and
inaccessible region. Digital Elevation Model (DEM) can be effective in the study of these …

[HTML][HTML] Interannual Glacial Mass Changes in High Mountain Asia and Connections to Climate Variability

Y Wang, J Zhan, H Shi, J Chen - Remote Sensing, 2024 - mdpi.com
We use data from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment and its Follow-On mission
(GRACE/GRACE-FO) from April 2002 to December 2022 to analyze interannual glacial …

Estimation of mass and energy balance of glaciers using a distributed energy balance model over the Chandra river basin (Western Himalaya)

A Patel, A Goswami, JK Dharpure… - Hydrological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The ongoing glacier shrinking in the Himalayan region causes a significant threat to
freshwater sustainability and associated future runoff. However, data on the spatial climatic …