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Towards understanding the pattern of glacier mass balances in High Mountain Asia using regional climatic modelling [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2020 Glaciers in High Mountain Asia (HMA) provide an important water resource for communities downstream, and they are markedly impacted by global warming, yet there is a lack of understanding of the observed glacier mass balances and their spatial ...
R. J. de Kok +4 more
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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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Future growth and decline of high mountain Asia's ice-dammed lakes and associated risk
Communications Earth & Environment, 2022 More than 10,000 locations in High-Mountain Asia are identified as likely to host ice-dammed lakes, responsible for most of the glacier outburst floods in High-Mountain Asia, using a combination of a digital elevation model and a glacier model.
Loris Compagno +4 more
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Remote sensing of the cryosphere in high mountain ASIA [PDF]
2017 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2017 High Mountain Asia (HMA), often referred to as the “third pole” of the world because its high elevation glaciers, contains the largest amount of fresh water outside the polar ice sheets. The region's hydrology is strongly controlled by variations in the timing and distribution of runoff from snow and glacier melt.
Batuhan Osmanoglu +5 more
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Remote Sensing, 2020 The quantification of snow cover changes and of the related water resources in mountain areas has a key role for understanding the impact on several sectors such as ecosystem services, tourism and energy production.
Claudia Notarnicola
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Heterogeneous Influence of Glacier Morphology on the Mass Balance Variability in High Mountain Asia [PDF]
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 2019 We investigate the control of the morphological variables on the 2000–2016 glacier‐wide mass balances of 6,470 individual glaciers of High Mountain Asia. We separate the data set into 12 regions assumed to be climatically homogeneous. We find that the slope of the glacier tongue, mean glacier elevation, percentage of supraglacial debris cover, and ...
Fanny Brun +6 more
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Avalanche character and fatalities in the high mountains of Asia [PDF]
Annals of Glaciology, 2016 Abstract.With the exception of northern India, there are few, if any, consistent data records relating to avalanche activity in the high mountains of Asia. However, records do exist of avalanche fatalities in the region, contained in mountaineering expedition reports. In this paper, I review and analyze statistics of avalanche fatalities (both snow and
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Nomadic ecology shaped the highland geography of Asia's Silk Roads [PDF]
, 2017 There are many unanswered questions about the evolution of the ancient 'Silk Roads' across Asia. This is especially the case in their mountainous stretches, where harsh terrain is seen as an impediment to travel.
Frachetti, MD +3 more
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Influence of Topographic Shading on the Mass Balance of the High Mountain Asia Glaciers
Remote Sensing, 2022 Most studies attribute the glacier mass balance within High Mountain Asia (HMA) to climate change, ignoring the influence of its complex terrain. Knowledge of the influence of this complex terrain is crucial for understanding the spatial variability in ...
Rongjun Wang +6 more
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Numerical simulations of the impacts of mountain on oasis effects in arid Central Asia [PDF]
, 2017 The oases in the mountain-basin systems of Central Asia are extremely fragile. Investigating oasis effects and oasis-desert interactions is important for understanding the ecological stability of oases.
De Maeyer, Philippe +6 more
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