Anthropogenic climate change drives melting of glaciers in the Himalaya

SA Romshoo, KO Murtaza, W Shah, T Ramzan… - … Science and Pollution …, 2022 - Springer
The Himalayan glaciers provide water to a large population in south Asia for a variety of
purposes and ecosystem services. As a result, regional monitoring of glacier melting and …

Glacier retreat and lake outburst floods in the central Himalayan region from 2000 to 2022

A Banerjee, S Kang, W Guo, ME Meadows, W Wang… - Natural Hazards, 2024 - Springer
Recent research on the Himalayan cryosphere has increasingly been focused on climate
uncertainty and regional variations, considering features such as glacier recession, lake …

Landsat satellites observed dynamics of snowline altitude at the end of the melting season, Himalayas, 1991–2022

J Wang, Z Tang, G Deng, G Hu, Y You, Y Zhao - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
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 …

Spatio-temporal snow cover change in the early twenty-first century using improved MODIS dataset: a case study of District Hunza, Pakistan

MFU Moazzam, G Rahman, KS Ali, BG Lee - Climate Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
Climate change has a massive influence on cryosphere around the globe, particularly in the
Hindukush, Karakoram, and Himalayan (HKH) region which is jeopardizing water resources …

Climatic variability at Gangtok and Tadong weather observatories in Sikkim, India, during 1961–2017

P Kumar, MC Sharma, R Saini, GK Singh - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The present study documents the long-term trends in the temperature and precipitation of a
poorly represented region, the Sikkim, eastern Himalaya using the Mann–Kendall non …

Spatiotemporal dynamics and geodetic mass changes of glaciers with varying debris cover in the pangong region of Trans-Himalayan Ladakh, India between 1990 …

U Majeed, I Rashid, NA Najar, N Gul - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Glaciers across the Himalayan arc are showing varying signs of recession. Glaciers in the
eastern and western parts of the Himalayan arc are retreating more rapidly as compared to …

Assessment of proglacial lakes in Sikkim Himalaya, India for glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) risk analysis using HEC-RAS and geospatial techniques

P Hazra, AP Krishna - Journal of the Geological Society of India, 2022 - Springer
Existence and expansion of glacial lakes from Sikkim Himalaya enhances the susceptibility
of the region to glacial lake outburst floods (GLOF) causing destruction of infrastructures and …

Geo-ecological cues for mass nesting synchronization of Olive Ridley turtles along Rushikulya estuary in Odisha, east coast of India

M Mishra, T Acharyya, D Kar, M Debanath… - Marine Pollution …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, we have analyzed how geo-ecological cues for endangered Olive Ridley
turtles' mass nesting behavior got modified by impact of four severe cyclones during 2010 …

Analysis of differential glacier behaviour in Sikkim Himalayas in view of changing climate

S Guha, RK Tiwari - Geocarto International, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The assessment of temporal changes in glacier response due to climatic change is critical
from the hydrological perspective. The present study aims to identify temporal changes in …

Variability of precipitation extremes and drought intensity over the Sikkim State, India, during 1950–2018

SK Dubey, RK Ranjan, AK Misra, N Wanjari… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2022 - Springer
The rainfall pattern analysis and extreme precipitation indices are executed using the India
Meteorological Department (IMD) gridded data positioned in the Sikkim region, which is …