Land Surface Modeling in the Himalayas: On the Importance of Evaporative Fluxes for the Water Balance of a High‐Elevation Catchment

P Buri, S Fatichi, TE Shaw, ES Miles… - Water Resources …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract High Mountain Asia (HMA) is among the most vulnerable water towers globally and
yet future projections of water availability in and from its high‐mountain catchments remain …

[PDF][PDF] Precipitation variability related to atmospheric circulation patterns over the Tibetan Plateau

HW Lai, D Chen, HW Chen - International Journal of Climatology, 2024 - hanschen.org
Precipitation is affected by intricate atmospheric dynamic and thermodynamic processes.
Horizontal winds are frequently used to represent the dynamic component as winds play a …

Land surface modeling informed by earth observation data: toward understanding blue–green–white water fluxes in High Mountain Asia

P Buri, S Fatichi, TE Shaw, CL Fyffe… - Geo-Spatial …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Mountains are important suppliers of freshwater to downstream areas, affecting large
populations in particular in High Mountain Asia (HMA). Yet, the propagation of water from …

Mapping and characterization of avalanches on mountain glaciers with Sentinel-1 satellite imagery

M Kneib, A Dehecq, F Brun, F Karbou, L Charrier… - The …, 2024 - tc.copernicus.org
Avalanches are important contributors to the mass balance of glaciers located in mountain
ranges with steep topographies. Avalanches result in localized over-accumulation that is …

Hydrological regimes and evaporative flux partitioning at the climatic ends of high mountain Asia

S Fugger, TE Shaw, A Jouberton… - Environmental …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
High elevation headwater catchments are complex hydrological systems that seasonally
buffer water and release it in the form of snow and ice melt, modulating downstream runoff …

[HTML][HTML] Accelerated glacier mass loss in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau since the 1970s

LH Luo, CQ Ke, YB Fan, ZF Wang - Advances in Climate Change Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The southeastern Tibetan Plateau (SETP) is a region in High Mountain Asia with
the most serious glacier mass loss. However, long-term and large regional-scale studies that …

Reply to Yang et al.: Global warming and black carbon simultaneously lead to glacier mass decline over the southeastern Tibetan Plateau

A Jouberton, ES Miles, TE Shaw… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
In our study (1) we reconstructed the last 45 y of glacial evolution in the Southeastern
Tibetan Plateau and revealed that decadal changes in spring and monsoon precipitation …

Increasing precipitation will offset the impact of warming air temperatures on glacier volume loss in the monsoon-influenced Himalaya until 2100 CE

A Rowan, AM Schlich-Davies, AN Ross, DJ Quincey… - 2024 - eartharxiv.org
Himalayan glaciers are projected to shrink by over 50% this century due to rising air
temperatures. However, the impact of future precipitation change on glacier evolution …

4 Hindukush Karakoram Himalayan Glaciers

AC Asset - Polar Ice and Global Warming in Cryosphere Regions, 2024 - books.google.com
The third pole cryosphere, Hindukush Karakoram Himalaya (HKH), is a part of High
Mountain Asia (HMA), known for having the greatest ice and snow reservoir outside the …

Hindukush Karakoram Himalayan Glaciers: A Cryospheric Asset

AV Kulkarni, R Asharaf, A Sattar - Polar Ice and Global Warming in … - taylorfrancis.com
The Hindukush Karakoram Himalaya is one of the largest reservoirs of ice and snow, and
supports the lives of billions of people. Climate change is significantly impacting the glaciers …