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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"High Mountain Asia"”.
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WRF-based dynamical downscaling over High Mountain Asia
High Mountain Asia (HMA) is a mountainous area including the Tibetan Plateau (TP) and surrounding mountain ranges. Due to its unique climatic and tectonic settings, the HMA region is highly vulnerable to natural hazards, such as landslides and Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs). Under climate …
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Precipitation prediction over High Mountain Asia using Gaussian processes
The rivers of High Mountain Asia provide freshwater to over 1.9 billion people. However, precipitation, the main driver of river flow, is still poorly understood due to limited direct measurements in this area. Existing tools to interpolate the few available measurements or to downscale and …
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Remote Detection of Surging Glaciers Across High Mountain Asia
High Mountain Asia (HMA) hosts the largest glacier concentration outside of polar regions. This region also represents the second major surge cluster, globally. Despite numerous sub-regional and individual glacier – scale studies of surging, our understanding of this phenomenon remains largely …
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The Rise of a Technoscientific Third Pole: Environmental Data Practices in High Mountain Asia
… the Hindu Kush Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau (“High Mountain Asia”). A region with a dearth of in-situ environmental data and opaque, fragmented governance, remote sensing data plays a key role in uncovering the region’s environmental concerns. These range from disasters such as flooding and …
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Observing the Seasonal Evolution of Supraglacial Ponds in High Mountain Asia: A Supervised Classification Approach
Supraglacial ponds on debris covered glaciers in High Mountain Asia (HMA) can locally store surface runoff and prolong water delivery to downstream river basins (Benn et al., 2012; Miles et al., 2019). Temporal variation in the extent of supraglacial ponding therefore affects the timing and …
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Quantifying Supraglacial Debris Thickness and the Glaciological Controls on its Spatial Distribution in High Mountain Asia
… become a more prominent feature of the shrinking mountain cryosphere (Shukla et al., 2009; Thakuri et al., 2014; Gaddam et al. 2016; Tielidze et al., 2019), there is an increasing need to understand how they will respond to climate change. In particular, there is a requirement to improve our …
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COMMUNITY IMPACTS TO AND FROM GLACIOLOGY: ANALYZING THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON HIMALAYAN MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES WHILE BUILDING THE NEXT GENERATION OF GEOSCIENTISTS
… the impacts of climate change on communities in High Mountain Asia as well as how the scientific community itself can be changed to strengthen our endeavors. Chapter 1 introduces the dissertation framework and sets the stage for the work outlined in Chapters 2-4. Chapter 2 presents a Glacier …
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Quantifying supraglacial debris thickness at local to regional scales
… glaciers, which are common in temperate mountain ranges around the world. As such, it is an important input variable to the sorts of models that are used to understand and predict glacier change, which are essential for determining future water supply in glacierised regions and glacier …
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Glacier surging in the West Kunlun Shan
The cryosphere of High Mountain Asia represents the third-largest glacial system on Earth, with a glacierised area of ~40 800 km2 (Bolch et al., 2012) and a mass balance of -26 ± 12 Gt a-1: ~10% of the global contribution of the cryosphere to sea level rise (Vaughan et al., 2013). The glaciers of …