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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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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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
Sujay Kumar +2 more
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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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Changes in Extreme Precipitation and Landslides Over High Mountain Asia
Geophysical Research Letters, 2020 High 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.
Dalia Kirschbaum +2 more
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A spatially resolved estimate of High Mountain Asia glacier mass balances, 2000-2016 [PDF]
Nat Geosci, 2017 High Mountain Asia hosts the largest glacier concentration outside the polar regions. These glaciers are important contributors to streamflow in one of the most populated areas of the world. Past studies have used methods that can only provide regionally-
F. Brun +4 more
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Remote sensing-derived time series of transient glacier snowline altitudes for High Mountain Asia, 1985–2021 [PDF]
Sci DataThis study presents a new dataset of remote sensing-derived Transient Snowline Altitude (TSLA) measurements for glaciers in High Mountain Asia. We use the Google Earth Engine to obtain TSLA data for approx. 2.8 · 104 glaciers larger than 0.5 km2.
D. Loibl, Niklas Richter, Inge Grünberg
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Regime shift to extensive valley glaciations over High Mountain Asia during the Early-Middle Pleistocene [PDF]
Nat CommunIn contrast to the well-established onset of Northern Hemisphere high-latitude glaciation at ~2.7 Ma, the timing and drivers of the intensified glaciation over High Mountain Asia (HMA) remain elusive, as glacial geologic evidence within this region is ...
Qing Yan +8 more
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Climate change in the High Mountain Asia in CMIP6 [PDF]
Earth System Dynamics, 2021 Climate change over High Mountain Asia (HMA, including the Tibetan Plateau) is investigated over the period 1979–2014 and in future projections following the four Shared Socioeconomic Pathways: SSP1-2.6, SSP2-4.5, SSP3-7.0 and SSP5-8.5.
M. Lalande +4 more
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Patterns and change rates of glacial lake water levels across High Mountain Asia [PDF]
Natl Sci RevUsing satellite altimetry data, this work quantifies the inter-annual trends and intra-annual fluctuations in water levels of glacial lakes in High Mountain Asia during 2019-2023.
Ying-Zheng Wang +9 more
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