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A comprehensive water bodies dataset of high-mountain Asia [PDF]

Scientific Data
High-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, Zhimin Hu, Kuo Zhang, Dezhao Yan, Yanan Su, Jinhao Xu, Ruilin Wang, Min Feng   +7 more
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Development of a multidecadal land reanalysis over High Mountain Asia [PDF]

Scientific Data
Anthropogenic 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, Yuan Xue, Sujay V. Kumar, Augusto Getirana, Sasha McLarty, Ravi Appana, Bart Forman, Ben Zaitchik, Bryant Loomis, Viviana Maggioni, Yifan Zhou   +10 more
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Preparing for cascading hazards in High Mountain Asia. [PDF]

Natl Sci Rev
High Mountain Asia stands out as the global epicentre of cryospheric risk, and is possible to provide a model for global resilience in a rapidly warming world.
Wang X, Fan X, Bhuyan K.
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Surging Glaciers in High Mountain Asia between 1986 and 2021

Remote Sensing, 2023
High Mountain Asia (HMA) is one of the concentrated areas of surging glaciers in the world. The dynamic movement of surging glaciers not only reshapes the periglacial landscape but also has the potential to directly or indirectly trigger catastrophic ...
Xiaojun Yao, Sugang Zhou, Meiping Sun, Hongyu Duan, Yuan Zhang   +4 more
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Accelerating River Discharge in High Mountain Asia

AGU Advances
High Mountain Asia (HMA) plays a crucial role in Asian hydrology—its vast snow and glacier‐covered landscape significantly influences downstream river water supply for billions of people. Understanding the spatiotemporal pattern of river discharge in HMA
J. A. Flores, C. J. Gleason, C. Brown, N. Vergopolan, M. M. Lummus, L. A. Stearns, D. Li, L. C. Andrews, D. Basnyat, C. B. Brinkerhoff, R. Ducusin, D. Feng, E. Friedmann, X. He, M. Girotto, S. V. Kumar, R. B. Lammers, G. Lamsal, F. Z. Maina, A. R. McLarty, A. A. Proussevitch, E. Shevliakova, D. Subedi, J. Wang   +23 more
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Brief communication: Updated GAMDAM glacier inventory over high-mountain Asia [PDF]

The Cryosphere, 2019
The original Glacier Area Mapping for Discharge from the Asian Mountains (GAMDAM) glacier inventory was the first methodologically consistent dataset for high-mountain Asia.
A. Sakai
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Contrasting glacier responses to recent climate change in high-mountain Asia. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2017
AbstractRecent studies of Asian glaciers have shown that glaciers in eastern Karakoram and West Kunlun have been slightly gaining mass while those in nearby Jammu Kashmir and Himalayas are losing mass, at rates of more than 0.5 m w.e.yr−1 and about 0.3 m w.e.yr−1, respectively. Two possible explanations have been proposed for this difference in glacier
Sakai A, Fujita K.
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An assessment of gridded precipitation products over High Mountain Asia

Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 2023
Study region: High Mountain Asia Study focus: The study assesses five high-resolution gridded precipitation products against observations taken at twenty-seven weather stations across High Mountain Asia (HMA), one of the world's most complex and data ...
Ishrat J. Dollan, Fadji Z. Maina, Sujay V. Kumar, Efthymios I. Nikolopoulos, Viviana Maggioni   +4 more
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Diverging Trends in Rain‐On‐Snow Over High Mountain Asia

Earth's Future, 2023
Rain‐on‐snow (ROS) over snow‐dominated regions such as High Mountain Asia (HMA) modulates snowmelt and runoff and is key contributor in influencing water availability and hazards (e.g., floods and landslides). We studied the trends in ROS in HMA over the
Fadji Z. Maina, Sujay V. Kumar
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Landslide Hazard Is Projected to Increase Across High Mountain Asia

Earth's Future
High Mountain Asia has long been known as a hotspot for landslide risk, and studies have suggested that landslide hazard is likely to increase in this region over the coming decades.
Thomas A. Stanley, Rachel B. Soobitsky, Pukar M. Amatya, Dalia B. Kirschbaum   +3 more
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