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On the origin of the North Pacific arcs [PDF]
, 2004 We present a new hypothesis that relates global plate tectonics to the formation of marginal basins, island arcs, spreading ridges and arc-shaped mountain belts around the North Pacific Ocean.
Fornós, Joan J. +3 more
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Multi-physics ensemble snow modelling in the western Himalaya [PDF]
, 2020 Combining multiple data sources with multi-physics simulation frameworks offers new potential to extend snow model inter-comparison efforts to the Himalaya.
Forsythe, Nathan +4 more
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Water Resources Research, 2023 High Mountain Asia (HMA) is the headwater area for major Asian rivers, providing a vast amount of freshwater to billions of people in Asia. These rivers also make their surrounding areas highly vulnerable to destructive water‐related disasters.
Yanxin Zhu +6 more
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Remote Detection of Surge-Related Glacier Terminus Change across High Mountain Asia
Remote Sensing, 2021 High Mountain Asia (HMA) hosts the largest glacier concentration outside of polar regions. It is also distinct glaciologically as it forms one of two major surge clusters globally, and many glaciers there contradict the globally observed glacier ...
Amelia B. Vale +3 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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The Glacier Complexes of the Mountain Massifs of the North-West of Inner Asia and their Dynamics [PDF]
, 2011 The subject of this paper is the glaciation of the mountain massifs Mongun-Taiga, Tavan-Boghd-Ola, Turgeni- Nuru, and Harhira-Nuru. The glaciation is represented mostly by small forms that sometimes form a single complex of domeshaped peaks ...
Chistyakov , Kirill V. +3 more
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The State and Fate of Glaciers in High Mountain Asia
, 2023 The 28th IUGG General Assembly (IUGG2023) (Berlin 2023)
openaire +2 more sources
Supraglacial debris thickness and supply rate in High-Mountain Asia
Communications Earth & Environment, 2022 Supraglacial debris in High-Mountain Asia is extensively thin and its supply rate from local topography increases with the temperature and slope of debris-supply slopes, according to analyses of remote sensing data from over 4600 glaciers.
Michael McCarthy +5 more
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That Undisclosed World: Eric Shipton’s Mountains of Tartary (1950). [PDF]
, 2014 Mountains of Tartary (1950) recounts Eric Shipton’s mountaineering and travels in Xinjiang during his two postings as British Consul-General in Kashgar in the 1940s.
Westaway, Jonathan
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Ancient Migratory Events in the Middle East: New Clues from the Y-Chromosome Variation of Modern Iranians [PDF]
, 2012 Knowledge of high resolution Y-chromosome haplogroup diversification within Iran provides important geographic context regarding the spread and compartmentalization of male lineages in the Middle East and southwestern Asia.
A Gusmão +79 more
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