Current and future water balance of a mountain subcatchment of Issyk-Kul Lake, Tien Shan range, Kyrgyzstan

P Chevallier, R Satylkanov, F Delclaux… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Snow and ice dominated basins are particularly vulnerable to climate change but estimating
their hydrological balance remains challenging in data-scarce regions like the Tien Shan …

[HTML][HTML] Shifted discharge and drier soils: Hydrological projections for a Central Asian catchment

T Schaffhauser, S Lange, Y Tuo, M Disse - Journal of Hydrology: Regional …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Study Region The Naryn River Basin, Kyrgyzstan Study Focus We investigate the
impacts of climate change in the basin based on two families of General Circulation Models …

[HTML][HTML] Spatio-temporal reconstruction of winter glacier mass balance in the Alps, Scandinavia, Central Asia and western Canada (1981–2019) using climate …

M Guidicelli, M Huss, M Gabella, N Salzmann - The Cryosphere, 2023 - tc.copernicus.org
Spatio-temporal reconstruction of winter glacier mass balance is important for assessing
long-term impacts of climate change. However, high-altitude regions significantly lack …

Central Asia's spatiotemporal glacier response ambiguity due to data inconsistencies and regional simplifications

M Barandun, E Pohl - The Cryosphere Discussions, 2022 - tc.copernicus.org
Glacier evolution across Tien Shan and Pamir is heterogeneous in space and time. This
heterogeneity is believed to be mainly driven by contrasting climatic settings and changing …

Glacial runoff buffers droughts through the 21st century

L Ultee, S Coats, J Mackay - Earth System Dynamics, 2022 - esd.copernicus.org
Global climate model projections suggest that 21st century climate change will bring
significant drying in the terrestrial midlatitudes. Recent glacier modeling suggests that runoff …

Opposite mass balance variations between glaciers in western Tibet and the western Tien Shan

M Zhu, LG Thompson, T Yao, S Jin, W Yang… - Global and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding the spatiotemporal variability of glacier mass balance in the Third Pole (TP)
is important in the predictability of regional water supplies and glacier-related natural …

[HTML][HTML] Fountain scheduling strategies for improving water-use efficiency of artificial ice reservoirs (Ice stupas)

S Balasubramanian, M Hoelzle, R Waser - Cold Regions Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Artificial ice reservoirs (AIRs), also called ice stupas, are a climate-change adaptation
strategy developed in the Indian Himalayas (Ladakh). With this technology, otherwise …

A snow and glacier hydrological model for large catchments–case study for the Naryn River, central Asia

S Shannon, A Payne, J Freer, G Coxon… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2023 - hess.copernicus.org
In this paper we implement a degree day snowmelt and glacier melt model in the Dynamic
fluxEs and ConnectIvity for Predictions of HydRology (DECIPHeR) model. The purpose is to …

Estimating glacier dynamics and supraglacial lakes together with associated regional hazards using high-resolution datasets in Pamir

M Safarov, S Kang, A Fazylov, M Gulayozov… - Journal of Mountain …, 2024 - Springer
Recent climate dynamics denote patterns and variations in climatic conditions and
associated cryospheric changes in the Pamir region, affecting downstream ecosystems and …

Acceleration of Abramov Glacier (Pamir‐Alay) retreat since the Little Ice Age

T Saks, V Rinterknecht, I Lavrentiev, G Béra, E Mattea… - Boreas, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The Koksu River valley is located in the Pamir‐Alay mountain range and contains 25
glaciers larger than 1 km2 and numerous smaller glaciers. The largest glacier in the …