Review of snow cover variation over the Tibetan Plateau and its influence on the broad climate system

Q You, T Wu, L Shen, N Pepin, L Zhang, Z Jiang… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Variation in snow cover over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) is a key component of climate change
and variability, and critical for many hydrological and biological processes. This review first …

Interactions of Asian mineral dust with Indian summer monsoon: Recent advances and challenges

Q **, J Wei, WKM Lau, B Pu, C Wang - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
The Indian summer monsoon (ISM) is one of the world's strongest monsoon systems that
brings about eighty percent of the annual rainfall to the Indian subcontinent and impacts the …

The evolution, seasonality and impacts of western disturbances

KMR Hunt, AG Turner… - Quarterly Journal of the …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Western disturbances (WDs) are upper‐level synoptic‐scale systems embedded in the
subtropical westerly jet stream (STWJ), often associated with extreme rainfall events in north …

Unprecedented drought in South India and recent water scarcity

V Mishra, K Thirumalai, S Jain… - Environmental Research …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Peninsular Indian agriculture and drinking water availability are critically reliant on seasonal
winter rainfall occurring from October to December, associated with the northeastern …

Recurring summer and winter droughts from 4.2-3.97 thousand years ago in north India

A Giesche, DA Hodell, CA Petrie, GH Haug… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The 4.2-kiloyear event has been described as a global megadrought that
transformed multiple Bronze Age complex societies, including the Indus Civilization, located …

Evaluating winter precipitation over the western Himalayas in a high-resolution Indian regional reanalysis using multisource climate datasets

Nischal, R Attada, KMR Hunt - Journal of Applied Meteorology …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Considerable uncertainties are associated with precipitation characteristics over the western
Himalayan region (WHR). These are due to typically small-scale but high-intensity storms …

Environmental effect on the performance of passive daytime photonic radiative cooling and building energy-saving potential

JP Bijarniya, J Sarkar, P Maiti - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020 - Elsevier
Passive photonic radiative cooling is used to make sky exposed surfaces sub-ambient with
recent development in metamaterials throughout the day and night cycle. Daytime radiative …

Underlying physical mechanisms of winter precipitation extremes over India's high mountain region

Nischal, R Attada, KMR Hunt… - Quarterly Journal of the …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Extreme precipitation events (EPEs) are among the most pervasive weather hazards in the
western Himalayan region (WHR), posing widespread damage to life, infrastructure, and …

Large‐scale reforestation can increase water yield and reduce drought risk for water‐insecure regions in the Asia‐Pacific

HC Teo, SV Raghavan, X He, Z Zeng… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Large‐scale reforestation can potentially bring both benefits and risks to the water cycle,
which needs to be better quantified under future climates to inform reforestation decisions …

Identifying and estimating the sources of river flow in the cold arid desert environment of Upper Indus River Basin (UIRB), western Himalayas

SA Lone, G Jeelani, V Padhya… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
A reliable water supply in different Himalayan River basins is increasingly important for
domestic, agriculture, and hydropower generation. These water resources are under serious …