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The State of Remote Sensing Capabilities of Cascading Hazards over High Mountain Asia. [PDF]

Front Earth Sci (Lausanne), 2019
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 subsequent hazards influenced by a complex array of preconditions and vulnerabilities.
Kirschbaum D, Watson CS, Rounce DR, Shugar D, Kargel JS, Haritashya UK, Amatya P, Shean D, Anderson ER, Jo M.   +9 more
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Health and sustainability of glaciers in High Mountain Asia. [PDF]

Nat Commun, 2021
AbstractGlaciers in High Mountain Asia generate meltwater that supports the water needs of 250 million people, but current knowledge of annual accumulation and ablation is limited to sparse field measurements biased in location and glacier size. Here, we present altitudinally-resolved specific mass balances (surface, internal, and basal combined) for ...
Miles E, McCarthy M, Dehecq A, Kneib M, Fugger S, Pellicciotti F.   +5 more
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Glacier shrinkage across High Mountain Asia [PDF]

Annals of Glaciology, 2015
AbstractAn assessment of glacier shrinkage (reduction of area) for all of High Mountain Asia requires a complete compilation of measured rates of change and also a methodology for objective comparison of rates. I present a compilation from 155 publications reporting glacier area changes, and also a methodology that overcomes the main obstacles ...
J. Graham Cogley
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Water Storage Trends in High Mountain Asia. [PDF]

Front Earth Sci (Lausanne), 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 and close the budget of secular changes in TWS over the span of the GRACE satellite mission (2003 ...
Loomis BD, Richey AS, Arendt AA, Appana R, Deweese YC, Forman BA, Kumar SV, Sabaka TJ, Shean DE.   +8 more
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Development of a multidecadal land reanalysis over High Mountain Asia. [PDF]

Sci Data
AbstractAnthropogenic 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, consistent and reliable estimates of water storage and fluxes over the region are lacking ...
Maina FZ, Xue Y, Kumar SV, Getirana A, McLarty S, Appana R, Forman B, Zaitchik B, Loomis B, Maggioni V, Zhou Y.   +10 more
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Changes in Extreme Precipitation and Landslides Over High Mountain Asia

Geophysical Research Letters, 2020
AbstractHigh Mountain Asia is impacted by extreme monsoonal rainfall that triggers landslides in large proportions relative to global distributions, resulting in substantial human impacts and damage to infrastructure each year. Previous landslide research has qualitatively estimated how patterns in landslide activity may change based on climate change ...
Dalia Kirschbaum, Sarah Kapnick, Thomas Stanley, Salvatore Pascale   +3 more
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Projected 21st-Century Glacial Lake Evolution in High Mountain Asia [PDF]

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022
In High Mountain Asia (HMA), rising temperatures and retreating glaciers are leading to the formation of new glacial lakes and the expansion of existing ones. The sudden release of water from such lakes can lead to devastating glacial lake outburst floods (GLOF) threatening people and infrastructure for many kilometers downstream.
Wilhelm Furian, Fabien Maussion, Christoph Schneider   +2 more
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Irrigation as a Potential Driver for Anomalous Glacier Behavior in High Mountain Asia. [PDF]

Geophys Res Lett, 2018
AbstractMany glaciers in the northwest of High Mountain Asia (HMA) show an almost zero or positive mass balance, despite the global trend of melting glaciers. This phenomenon is often referred to as the “Karakoram anomaly,” although strongest positive mass balances can be found in the Kunlun Shan mountain range, northeast of the Karakoram.
de Kok RJ, Tuinenburg OA, Bonekamp PNJ, Immerzeel WW.   +3 more
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Change of snow and ice melting time in High Mountain Asia [PDF]

Chinese Science Bulletin, 2019
High Mountain Asia (HMA) is very sensitive to climate changes. In HMA, air temperature and precipitation shifts or increases are reflected in the timing of snowmelt onset. In this study, a long-term series (1979–2018) of snow melt onset time is first derived using spaceborne microwave radiometer data, following which the long-term trend of snow and ice-
Jinmei Pan, Yonghui Lei, Ruzhen Yao, Jiancheng Shi, Chuan Xiong   +4 more
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Winter And Spring Atmospheric Rivers In High Mountain Asia: Climatology, Dynamics, And Variability [PDF]

Climate Dynamics, 2021
Abstract Atmospheric Rivers (ARs) that reach the complex terrain of High Mountain Asia (HMA) cause significant hydrological impacts for millions of people. While ARs are often associated with precipitation extremes and can cause floods and debris flows affecting populated communities, little is known about ARs that reach as far inland as HMA ...
D. B. Nash, Leila M. V. Carvalho, Charles Jones, Qinghua Ding   +3 more
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