Response of debris-covered glaciers in the Mount Everest region to recent warming, and implications for outburst flood hazards

DI Benn, T Bolch, K Hands, J Gulley, A Luckman… - Earth-Science …, 2012‏ - Elsevier
In areas of high relief, many glaciers have extensive covers of supraglacial debris in their
ablation zones, which alters both rates and spatial patterns of melting, with important …

Proglacial lakes: character, behaviour and geological importance

JL Carrivick, FS Tweed - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2013‏ - Elsevier
Proglacial lakes are ubiquitous within the Quaternary record and can provide exceptional
breadth and depth of palaeoenvironmental information. Present deglaciation is increasing …

Glacier shrinkage driving global changes in downstream systems

AM Milner, K Khamis, TJ Battin, JE Brittain… - Proceedings of the …, 2017‏ - pnas.org
Glaciers cover∼ 10% of the Earth's land surface, but they are shrinking rapidly across most
parts of the world, leading to cascading impacts on downstream systems. Glaciers impart …

Status and change of the cryosphere in the extended Hindu Kush Himalaya region

T Bolch, JM Shea, S Liu, FM Azam, Y Gao… - The Hindu Kush …, 2019‏ - Springer
The cryosphere is defined by the presence of frozen water in its many forms: glaciers, ice
caps, ice sheets, snow, permafrost, and river and lake ice. In the extended Hindu Kush …

A regional-scale assessment of Himalayan glacial lake changes using satellite observations from 1990 to 2015

Y Nie, Y Sheng, Q Liu, L Liu, S Liu, Y Zhang… - Remote Sensing of …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
The Himalaya, the world's highest mountain ranges, are home to a large group of glaciers
and glacial lakes. Glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) in this region have resulted in …

Region-wide glacier mass balances over the Pamir-Karakoram-Himalaya during 1999–2011

J Gardelle, E Berthier, Y Arnaud, A Kääb - The Cryosphere, 2013‏ - tc.copernicus.org
The recent evolution of Pamir-Karakoram-Himalaya (PKH) glaciers, widely acknowledged
as valuable high-altitude as well as mid-latitude climatic indicators, remains poorly known …

Contrasting patterns of early twenty-first-century glacier mass change in the Himalayas

A Kääb, E Berthier, C Nuth, J Gardelle, Y Arnaud - Nature, 2012‏ - nature.com
Glaciers are among the best indicators of terrestrial climate variability, contribute importantly
to water resources in many mountainous regions, and are a major contributor to global sea …

[HTML][HTML] Annual 30 m dataset for glacial lakes in High Mountain Asia from 2008 to 2017

F Chen, M Zhang, H Guo, S Allen… - Earth System …, 2021‏ - essd.copernicus.org
Atmospheric warming is intensifying glacier melting and glacial-lake development in High
Mountain Asia (HMA), and this could increase glacial-lake outburst flood (GLOF) hazards …

[كتاب][B] Glaciers and glaciation

D Benn, DJA Evans - 2014‏ - api.taylorfrancis.com
Glaciers and Glaciation is the classic textbook for all students of glaciation. Stimulating and
accessible, it has established a reputation as a comprehensive and essential resource. In …

Adapting to flood risk under climate change

RL Wilby, R Keenan - Progress in physical geography, 2012‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Flooding is the most common natural hazard and third most damaging globally after storms
and earthquakes. Anthropogenic climate change is expected to increase flood risk through …