Globally Scalable Glacier Mapping by Deep Learning Matches Expert Delineation Accuracy [PDF]
Nat Commun 16, 43 (2025)Accurate global glacier mapping is critical for understanding climate change impacts. Despite its importance, automated glacier mapping at a global scale remains largely unexplored. Here we address this gap and propose Glacier-VisionTransformer-U-Net (GlaViTU), a convolutional-transformer deep learning model, and five strategies for multitemporal ...
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Archaeological Evidence for a Climatic and Agrarian Crisis in Swat between 530 and 660: Possible Effects of the So-called “Late Antique Little Ice Age” (LALIA) [PDF]
, 2020 The short article evaluates the possible impacts of the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA)—a long cooling period that occurred between 536 and 660 CE in the adjacent regions of Inner Asia (Büntigen et al. 2016; Whittow 2019). The high mountain valley of
Luca Maria Olivieri
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Improved estimate of the detectability of gravitational radiation from a magnetically confined mountain on an accreting neutron star [PDF]
, 2009 We give an improved estimate of the detectability of gravitational waves from magnetically confined mountains on accreting neutron stars. The improved estimate includes the following effects for the first time: three-dimensional hydromagnetic ("fast") relaxation, three-dimensional resistive ("slow") relaxation, realistic accreted masses $M_a \la 2 ...
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Transient gravitational waves from pulsar post-glitch recoveries [PDF]
, 2020 This work explores whether gravitational waves (GWs) from neutron star (NS) mountains can be detected with current 2nd-generation and future 3rd-generation GW detectors. In particular, we focus on a scenario where transient mountains are formed immediately after a NS glitch.
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Overview on snow and ice avalanches in High Mountain Asia (HMA)
, 2023 The 28th IUGG General Assembly (IUGG2023) (Berlin 2023)
Acharya, A. +6 more
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021 High Mountain Asia (HMA) has the largest expanse of snow outside of the polar regions and it plays a critical role in climate and hydrology. In situ monitoring is rare due to terrain complexity and inaccessibility, making remote sensing the most ...
Chelsea Ackroyd +3 more
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Influence of Large-Scale Circulation on the Dynamics of Extratropical Cyclones and Orographic Precipitation in High Mountain Asia [PDF]
, 2016 Westerly disturbances are the primary climatic influence within High Mountain Asia during winter, producing over half of annual precipitation in 4-6 events per winter season and supplying essential water resources for large populations across Asia.
Cannon, Forest Glen
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Resistive relaxation of a magnetically confined mountain on an accreting neutron star [PDF]
, 2009 Three-dimensional numerical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations are performed to investigate how a magnetically confined mountain on an accreting neutron star relaxes resistively. No evidence is found for non-ideal MHD instabilities on a short time-scale, such as the resistive ballooning mode or the tearing mode.
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Present and future impact of snow cover and glaciers on runoff from mountain regions [PDF]
, 2010 The aim of this contribution is to show how snow- and glaciermelt influence runoff today and in the future under the assumption that global warming continues.
Braun, Ludwig, Hagg, Wilfried
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Big Earth Data, 2020 The High Mountain Asia (HMA) region, ranging from the Hindu Kush and Tien Shan in the west to the Himalaya in the south with an altitude between 2000 and 8844 m, holds the largest reservoir of glaciers and snow outside Earth Polar Regions.
Jieyu Lu +7 more
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