Health and sustainability of glaciers in High Mountain Asia [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2021 Glaciers in High Mountain Asia are a key water resource. The authors use remote sensing data and a regional implementation of the continuity equation to quantify glacier ablation and accumulation rates for 2000–2016, and establish current climatic ...
Evan Miles +5 more
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Multi-decadal monsoon characteristics and glacier response in High Mountain Asia [PDF]
Environmental Research Letters, 2022 Glacier health across High Mountain Asia (HMA) is highly heterogeneous and strongly governed by regional climate, which is variably influenced by monsoon dynamics and the westerlies.
T E Shaw +11 more
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Water Storage Trends in High Mountain Asia [PDF]
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2019 Changes in terrestrial water storage (TWS) in High Mountain Asia (HMA) could have major societal impacts, as the region's large reservoirs of glaciers, snow, and groundwater provide a freshwater source to more than one billion people. We seek to quantify
Bryant D. Loomis +8 more
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A comprehensive water bodies dataset of high-mountain Asia [PDF]
Scientific DataHigh-Mountain Asia (HMA) hosts numerous water bodies that are highly sensitive to climate change. However, many of them, especially small ones, remain understudied due to the region’s complex terrain and extreme environmental conditions.
Yijie Sui +7 more
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Diverging Trends in Rain‐On‐Snow Over High Mountain Asia [PDF]
Earth's Future, 2023 Rain‐on‐snow (ROS) over snow‐dominated regions such as High Mountain Asia (HMA) modulates snowmelt and runoff and is key contributor in influencing water availability and hazards (e.g., floods and landslides). We studied the trends in ROS in HMA over the
Fadji Z. Maina, Sujay V. Kumar
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Development of a multidecadal land reanalysis over High Mountain Asia [PDF]
Scientific DataAnthropogenic and climatic changes affect the water and energy cycles in High Mountain Asia (HMA), home to over two billion people and the largest reservoirs of freshwater outside the polar zone. Despite their significant importance for water management,
Fadji Z. Maina +10 more
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Quantifying Patterns of Supraglacial Debris Thickness and Their Glaciological Controls in High Mountain Asia [PDF]
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021 Mapping patterns of supraglacial debris thickness and understanding their controls are important for quantifying the energy balance and melt of debris-covered glaciers and building process understanding into predictive models.
Karla Boxall +3 more
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Warming, increase in precipitation, and irrigation enhance greening in High Mountain Asia [PDF]
Communications Earth & Environment, 2022 Greening in high mountain Asia between 2003 and 2020 was driven by warming at high elevations, increased precipitation in forested regions and enhanced irrigation in croplands, according to a multivariate analysis of remote sensing data.
Fadji Zaouna Maina +3 more
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Assimilation of Satellite-Based Snow Cover and Freeze/Thaw Observations Over High Mountain Asia [PDF]
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2019 Toward qualifying hydrologic changes in the High Mountain Asia (HMA) region, this study explores the use of a hyper-resolution (1 km) land data assimilation (DA) framework developed within the NASA Land Information System using the Noah Multi ...
Yuan Xue +6 more
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Phylogeography and Population Demography of Parrotia subaequalis, a Hamamelidaceous Tertiary Relict ‘Living Fossil’ Tree Endemic to East Asia Refugia: Implications from Molecular Data and Ecological Niche Modeling [PDF]
PlantsThe diverse topography and mild monsoon climate in East Asia are considered to be important drivers for the long-term ecological success of the Tertiary relict ‘living fossil’ plants during the glacial/interglacial cycles.
Yunyan Zhang +10 more
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