Glacial change and hydrological implications in the Himalaya and Karakoram

Y Nie, HD Pritchard, Q Liu, T Hennig, W Wang… - Nature reviews earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
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 …

Glaciohydrology of the himalaya-karakoram

MF Azam, JS Kargel, JM Shea, S Nepal, UK Haritashya… - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND The Himalayan-Karakoram (HK) region in south Asia is one of the most
heavily glacierized and vulnerable mountainous regions on Earth. The Indus, Ganges, and …

Glacial lake outburst floods threaten millions globally

C Taylor, TR Robinson, S Dunning… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) represent a major hazard and can result in significant
loss of life. Globally, since 1990, the number and size of glacial lakes has grown rapidly …

Underestimated mass loss from lake-terminating glaciers in the greater Himalaya

G Zhang, T Bolch, T Yao, DR Rounce, W Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Long-term satellite-based observations have helped quantify glacier mass change and the
response of the hydrosphere to glacier changes. However, subaqueous mass loss …

Rapid worldwide growth of glacial lakes since 1990

DH Shugar, A Burr, UK Haritashya, JS Kargel… - Nature climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Glacial lakes are rapidly growing in response to climate change and glacier retreat. The role
of these lakes as terrestrial storage for glacial meltwater is currently unknown and not …

[HTML][HTML] Improving UAV-SfM time-series accuracy by co-alignment and contributions of ground control or RTK positioning

EW Nota, W Nijland, T De Haas - … Journal of Applied Earth Observation and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Structure from Motion (UAV-SfM) photogrammetry is
increasingly applied to topographic change detection, which requires multitemporal Digital …

Proglacial lakes control glacier geometry and behavior during recession

JL Sutherland, JL Carrivick, N Gandy… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Ice‐contact proglacial lakes are generally absent from numerical model simulations of
glacier evolution, and their effects on ice dynamics and on rates of deglaciation remain …

Heterogeneous changes in global glacial lakes under coupled climate warming and glacier thinning

T Zhang, W Wang, B An - Communications Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
Global glacial lakes have expanded markedly in recent decades, accompanied by many
catastrophic glacial lake outburst floods. However, our understanding of glacial lake …

Interannual flow dynamics driven by frontal retreat of a lake-terminating glacier in the Chinese Central Himalaya

Q Liu, C Mayer, X Wang, Y Nie, K Wu, J Wei… - Earth and Planetary …, 2020 - Elsevier
Most lake-terminating glaciers in the Himalaya retreat rapidly due to periodic frontal ice loss
at their terminus, but long-term observations are still limited regarding their flow dynamics …

Evaluation of Glacial Lake Outburst Flood susceptibility using multi-criteria assessment framework in Mahalangur Himalaya

N Khadka, X Chen, Y Nie, S Thakuri, G Zheng… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Ongoing recession of glaciers in the Himalaya in response to global climate change has far-
reaching impacts on the formation and expansion of glacial lakes. The subsequent glacial …