Snow, glaciers and permafrost translate fluctuations of atmospheric conditions and highlight
current environmental changes. Monitoring of these changes is one of the major objectives …

The cryosphere is defined by the presence of frozen water in its many forms: glaciers, ice
caps, ice sheets, snow, permafrost, and river and lake ice. In the extended Hindu Kush …

The alarming depletion of global inland lakes in recent decades makes it essential to predict
water inflow from rivers to lakes (WIRL) trend and unveil the dominant influencing driver …

Snow governs interaction between atmospheric and land surface processes in high
mountains, and is also source of fresh water. It is thus important to both climate scientists …

Central Asia has been rapidly changing in multiple ways over the past few decades.
Increases in temperature and likely decreases in precipitation in Central Asia as the result of …

Snow is a crucial component of the hydrological cycle in the Western Himalaya. Water from
snowmelt is used in various sectors in downstream regions, thus playing a critical role in …

Snow and ice dominated basins are particularly vulnerable to climate change but estimating
their hydrological balance remains challenging in data-scarce regions like the Tien Shan …

This study investigates the attribution of climate change to trends in river discharge during
six decades from 1955 until 2014 in 12 selected river catchments across six Central Asian …

Changes in the frequency or intensity of rainfall due to climate always affect the conservation
of soil resources, which leads to land degradation. The importance of assessing past and …

This review summarizes current understanding of drivers for change and of the impact of
accelerating global changes on mountains, encompassing effects of climate change and …