[HTML][HTML] State of Himalayan cryosphere and implications for water security

AV Kulkarni, TS Shirsat, A Kulkarni, HS Negi… - Water Security, 2021 - Elsevier
The Himalayan region has a large concentration of glaciers and seasonal snow. Recent
advances in remote sensing technologies have made it possible to study previously …

Climate change over the Himalayas

TP Sabin, R Krishnan, R Vellore, P Priya… - … A report of the Ministry of …, 2020 - Springer
• Future climate projections under various CMIP5 scenarios suggest warming of the HKH
region in the range of 2.6–4.6 C by the end of the twenty-first century. While future …

Understanding the interrelationships among mass balance, meteorology, discharge and surface velocity on Chhota Shigri Glacier over 2002–2019 using in situ …

A Mandal, A Ramanathan, MF Azam, T Angchuk… - Journal of …, 2020 - cambridge.org
The Himalayan glaciers contribute significantly to regional water resources. However,
limited field observations restrict our understanding of glacier dynamics and behaviour …

Mass balance and runoff modelling of partially debris-covered Dokriani Glacier in monsoon-dominated Himalaya using ERA5 data since 1979

MF Azam, S Srivastava - Journal of Hydrology, 2020 - Elsevier
Glacier-wide mass balance and catchment-wide runoff were reconstructed over 1979–2018
for Dokriani Glacier catchment in Garhwal Himalaya (India). A glacier mass balance-runoff …

Modelling supraglacial debris-cover evolution from the single-glacier to the regional scale: an application to High Mountain Asia

L Compagno, M Huss, ES Miles, MJ McCarthy… - The …, 2022 - tc.copernicus.org
Currently, about 12%–13% of High Mountain Asia's glacier area is debris-covered, which
alters its surface mass balance. However, in regional-scale modelling approaches, debris …

Reconciling high glacier surface melting in summer with air temperature in the semi-arid zone of Western Himalaya

B Pratap, P Sharma, L Patel, AT Singh, VK Gaddam… - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
In Himalaya, the temperature plays a key role in the process of snow and ice melting and,
importantly, the precipitation phase changes (ie, snow or rain). Consequently, in longer …

Glacier changes between 1971 and 2016 in the Jankar Chhu Watershed, Lahaul Himalaya, India

S Das, MC Sharma - Journal of Glaciology, 2019 - cambridge.org
Glacier changes in the Jankar Chhu Watershed (JCW) of Chandrabhaga (Chenab) basin,
Lahaul Himalaya were worked out based on Corona and Sentinel 2A images between 1971 …

Moisture sources for precipitation and hydrograph components of the Sutri Dhaka Glacier Basin, Western Himalayas

AT Singh, W Rahaman, P Sharma, CM Laluraj… - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
Himalayan glaciers are the major source of fresh water supply to the Himalayan Rivers,
which support the livelihoods of more than a billion people living in the downstream region …

Glacier mapping and change analysis in Chandra basin, Western Himalaya, India during 1971–2016

R Sahu, RD Gupta - International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
For carrying out glacier change analysis in Chandra basin, Western Himalaya, India during
1971–2016, glacier inventory is generated for year 2002 using Landsat Enhanced Thematic …

Stagnation of the Pensilungpa glacier, western Himalaya, India: causes and implications

PK Garg, S Garg, B Yousuf, A Shukla, V Kumar… - Journal of …, 2022 - cambridge.org
This study investigates stagnation conditions of the Pensilungpa glacier, western Himalaya.
Multiple glacier parameters (length, area, debris extent and thickness, snowline altitude …