Abstract Glaciers in the Himalaya–Karakoram mountain ranges harbour approximately half
of the ice volume in High-mountain Asia and modulate the flow of freshwater to almost 869 …

Water is the fundamental natural resource that supports life, ecosystems and human society.
Thus studying the water cycle is important for sustainable development. In the context of …

About 800 million people depend in part on meltwater from the thousands of glaciers in the
high mountains of Asia. Water stress makes this region vulnerable to drought, but glaciers …

Abstract High Mountain Asia hosts the largest glacier concentration outside the polar
regions. These glaciers are important contributors to streamflow in one of the most …

High-mountain Asia (HMA) constitutes the largest glacierized region outside of the Earth's
polar regions. Although available observations are limited, long-term records indicate …

三维激光扫描直接对地球表面进行三维密集采样, 可快速获取具有三维坐标(X, Y, Z)
和一定属性(反射强度等) 的海量, 不规则空间分布三维点云, 成为数字化时代下刻画复杂现实 …

The cryosphere in mountain regions is rapidly declining, a trend that is expected to
accelerate over the next several decades due to anthropogenic climate change. A cascade …

Andean glaciers are among the fastest shrinking and largest contributors to sea level rise on
Earth. They also represent crucial water resources in many tropical and semi-arid mountain …

Rivers originating in the high mountains of Asia are among the most meltwater-dependent
river systems on Earth, yet large human populations depend on their resources downstream …

Worldwide glacier retreat and associated future runoff changes raise major concerns over
the sustainability of global water resources,,–, but global-scale assessments of glacier …