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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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Glacier shrinkage across High Mountain Asia [PDF]
Annals of Glaciology, 2016 An 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.
J. Graham Cogley
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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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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.
Wilhelm Furian +2 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.
D. Kirschbaum +3 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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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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Super-resolution for terrain modeling using deep learning in high mountain Asia [PDF]
International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation, 2023 High Mountain Asia (HMA) is characterized by some of the most complex and rugged terrain conditions in the world. However, high resolution terrain data are not easy to quickly acquire from the area due to difficulties in accessing the region.
Yinghui Jiang +4 more
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Continuous warming shift greening towards browning in the Southeast and Northwest High Mountain Asia. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2021 Liu Y, Li Z, Chen Y.
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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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