A review of Central Asian glaciochemical data [PDF]
, 1990 The glaciers of central Asia provide suitable locations from which to recover continuous, high-resolution glaciochemical records on a continental scale.
Mayewski, Paul A +2 more
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Geophysical Research Letters, 2020 Glacier response analyses in High Mountain Asia have revealed that the glaciers from the Karakoram region were in balance or thickening while most from the other regions were thinning, the “Karakoram anomaly.” It is, however, not clear whether this ...
Shreyas Managave +4 more
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First Assessment of Mountains on Northwestern Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, as Potential Astronomical Observing Sites [PDF]
, 2010 Ellesmere Island, at the most northerly tip of Canada, possesses the highest mountain peaks within 10 degrees of the pole. The highest is 2616 m, with many summits over 1000 m, high enough to place them above a stable low-elevation thermal inversion that persists through winter darkness. Our group has studied four mountains along the northwestern coast
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Accelerating upward treeline shift in the Altai Mountains under last-century climate change [PDF]
, 2019 Treeline shift and tree growth often respond to climatic changes and it is critical to identify and quantify their dynamics. Some regions are particularly sensitive to climate change and the Altai Mountains, located in Central and East Asia, are showing ...
Battipaglia G. +6 more
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Deriving Bias and Uncertainty in MERRA-2 Snowfall Precipitation Over High Mountain Asia
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2019 A Bayesian approach to estimate bias and uncertainty in snowfall precipitation from MERRA-2 and other precipitation products was applied over High Mountain Asia (HMA), using a newly developed snow reanalysis method.
Yufei Liu, Steven A. Margulis
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Gravitational waves from neutron-star mountains [PDF]
Class. Quantum Grav. 41 043001 (2024)Rotating neutron stars that support long-lived, non-axisymmetric deformations known as mountains have long been considered potential sources of gravitational radiation. However, the amplitude from such a source is very weak and current gravitational-wave interferometers have yet to witness such a signal. The lack of detections has provided upper limits
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Sensitivity of top-of-the-mountain fluorescence telescope system for astrophysical neutrino flux above 10 PeV [PDF]
, 2019 Tau neutrinos with energies in the PeV-EeV range produce up-going extensive air showers (UEAS) if they interact underground close enough to the surface of the Earth. This work studies detectability of the UEAS with a system of fluorescence telescopes overlooking dark, low reflectivity, area on the ground up to the distances 20-30 km from mountain top(s)
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Runoff modelling in glacierized Central Asian catchments for present-day and future climate [PDF]
, 2006 A conceptual precipitation–runoff model was applied in five glacierized catchments in Central Asia. The model, which was first developed and applied in the Alps, works on a daily time step and yields good results in the more continental climate of the ...
Becht, M. +3 more
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Verification of the Convection-Allowing Ensemble System over the Hindu Kush Himalaya Region During the 2018 and 2019 Pre-Monsoon Severe Thunderstorm Seasons [PDF]
Some of the most intense thunderstorms on the planet occur in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region of South-Central Asia. NASA/SERVIR Applied Sciences Team competitive project to develop capacity of severe thunderstorm monitoring and forecasting tool for
Case, Jonathan L. +3 more
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The Drabo corymbosae-Papaveretea dahliani − a new vegetation class of the High Arctic polar desert [PDF]
, 2016 A new class and a new order (Drabo corymbosae-Papaveretea dahliani and Saxifrago oppositifoliae-Papaveretalia dahliani) have been described, and the Papaverion dahliani validated.
Daniëls, Fred J.A. +3 more
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