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Climate warming enhances snow avalanche risk in the Western Himalayas
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018 Significance Climate warming is impacting the cryosphere in high mountain ranges, thereby enhancing the probability for more and larger mass-wasting processes to occur.
J. A. Ballesteros-Cánovas +4 more
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Moisture‐mediated responsiveness of treeline shifts to global warming in the Himalayas
Global Change Biology, 2018 Among forest ecosystems, the alpine treeline ecotone can be considered to be a simplified model to study global ecology and climate change. Alpine treelines are expected to shift upwards in response to global warming given that tree recruitment and ...
Shalik Ram Sigdel +2 more
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Landslide detection in the Himalayas using machine learning algorithms and U-Net
Landslides, 2022 Event-based landslide inventories are essential sources to broaden our understanding of the causal relationship between triggering events and the occurring landslides. Moreover, detailed inventories are crucial for the succeeding phases of landslide risk
S. Meena +7 more
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Cannibal Himalayas? Jamaica Kincaid’s Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya. [PDF]
Litinfinite, 2023 This paper examines Jamaica Kincaid’s Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya through the lens of cannibalism. It shows how Kincaid uses the cannibal scene or cannibal talk by using the discourse a la Hulme of the absolute foreignness of the locale and the
Puspa Damai
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Remote Sensing, 2023 Studying the dynamics of snowline altitude at the end of the melting season (SLA-EMS) is beneficial in predicting future trends of glaciers and non-seasonal snow cover and in comprehending regional and global climate change.
Jingwen Wang +5 more
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Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Alimentaria, 2023 The shortcomings encountered from the use of conventional methods of refining draw considerable attention when it comes to the processing of edible oils.
Adeniyi A. E. +3 more
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The Neanderthal resurrection and the Abominable Snowman legend
Шаги, 2022 Since the 1870s, the image of the ‘prehistoric man’ has spread widely in European and American public imagination. His appearance is reconstructed by paleoanthropologists and anatomists (Schaaffhausen, Solger, Martin); under the guidance of “primitive ...
S. Yu. Nekliudov
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, 2023 The single-scattering albedo (SSA) of atmospheric aerosols is a key parameter that controls aerosol radiative effects. The variation of SSA is thought to be mainly regulated by aerosol absorption in the Himalayas and South Asia, but observations ...
Pengfei Tian +7 more
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An integrative method for identifying potentially dangerous glacial lakes in the Himalayas.
Science of the Total Environment, 2021 Glacial lakes in the Himalayas are widely distributed. Since 1900, more than 100 glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) have originated in the region, causing approximately 7000 deaths and considerable economic losses.
Taigang Zhang +4 more
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Some state records and deletions of Asian Cruciferae
Turczaninowia, 2021 Based on revision of various herbaria collections, Cruciferae (Brassicaceae) species lists of certain Asian countries are updated. These include first records of the following species/subspecies from relevant states mentioned in parentheses: Cryptospora ...
Дмитрий Александрович Герман
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