Manifestations and mechanisms of the Karakoram glacier Anomaly

D Farinotti, WW Immerzeel, RJ de Kok, DJ Quincey… - Nature …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Global-scale glacier shrinkage is one of the most prominent signs of ongoing climatic
change. However, important differences in glacier response exist at the regional scale, and …

High mountain areas

R Hock, G Rasul, C Adler, B Cáceres, S Gruber… - IPCC special report on …, 2019‏ - iris.unito.it
The cryosphere (including, snow, glaciers, permafrost, lake and river ice) is an integral
element of high mountain regions, which are home to roughly 10% of the global population …

Geomorphic process chains in high‐mountain regions—A review and Classification approach for natural hazards assessment

P Mani, S Allen, SG Evans, JS Kargel… - Reviews of …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Populations and infrastructure in high mountain regions are exposed to a wide range of
natural hazards, the frequency, magnitude, and location of which are extremely sensitive to …

[HTML][HTML] Sudden large-volume detachments of low-angle mountain glaciers–more frequent than thought?

A Kääb, M Jacquemart, A Gilbert, S Leinss… - The …, 2021‏ - tc.copernicus.org
The detachment of large parts of low-angle mountain glaciers resulting in massive ice–rock
avalanches have so far been believed to be a unique type of event, made known to the …

Process, mechanisms, and early warning of glacier collapse-induced river blocking disasters in the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, southeastern Tibetan Plateau

B An, W Wang, W Yang, G Wu, Y Guo, H Zhu… - Science of the Total …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Insights into some large-scale landslides in southeastern margin of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

B Zhao, L Su, Y Wang, W Li, L Wang - Journal of Rock Mechanics and …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The southeastern margin of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (SMQTP) is of a typical large landslide-
prone area due to intense tectonic activity, deeply incised valleys, high geostress and …

The hazardous 2017–2019 surge and river damming by Shispare Glacier, Karakoram

R Bhambri, CS Watson, K Hewitt, UK Haritashya… - Scientific reports, 2020‏ - nature.com
In 2017–2019 a surge of Shispare Glacier, a former tributary of the once larger Hasanabad
Glacier (Hunza region), dammed the proglacial river of Muchuhar Glacier, which formed an …

The state of remote sensing capabilities of cascading hazards over High Mountain Asia

D Kirschbaum, CS Watson, DR Rounce… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
Cascading hazard processes refer to a primary trigger such as heavy rainfall, seismic
activity, or snow melt, followed by a chain or web of consequences that can cause …

Spatiotemporal pattern of glacier mass balance in the Tibetan Plateau interior area over the past 40 years

K Wu, S Liu, Z Jiang, Y Zhu, J Wei, AA Tahir - Journal of Hydrology, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Tibetan Plateau interior basin (ITP) can be regarded as the intermediate zone
between balanced or slight positive mass balance and pronounced mass loss. As an …

Recent glacier and lake changes in High Mountain Asia and their relation to precipitation changes

D Treichler, A Kääb, N Salzmann, CY Xu - The Cryosphere, 2019‏ - tc.copernicus.org
We present an updated, spatially resolved estimate of 2003–2008 glacier surface elevation
changes for the entire region of High Mountain Asia (HMA) from ICESat laser altimetry data …