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 …
M Barandun, J Fiddes, M Scherler, T Mathys, T Saks… - Water Security, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …
Y Chen, W Li, H Deng, G Fang, Z Li - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract The Tienshan Mountains, with its status as “water tower”, is the main water source and ecological barrier in Central Asia. The rapid warming affected precipitation amounts and …
F Paul, SH Winsvold, A Kääb, T Nagler, G Schwaizer - Remote Sensing, 2016 - mdpi.com
Mapping of glacier extents from automated classification of optical satellite images has become a major application of the freely available images from Landsat. A widely applied …
Region-wide averaging of Himalayan glacier mass change has masked any catchment or glacier-scale variability in glacier recession; thus the role of a number of glaciological …
Mountain glaciers integrate climate processes to provide an unmatched signal of regional climate forcing. However, extracting the climate signal via intercomparison of regional …
Abstract The Tien Shan and Pamir mountains host over 28,000 glaciers providing essential water resources for increasing water demand in Central Asia. A disequilibrium between …
E Berthier, V Cabot, C Vincent, D Six - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Since 2000, a vast archive of stereo-images has been built by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection (ASTER) satellite. Several studies already extracted …