A review of groundwater in high mountain environments

LD Somers, JM McKenzie - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mountain water resources are of particular importance for downstream populations but are
threatened by decreasing water storage in snowpack and glaciers. Groundwater …

Looking beyond glaciers to understand mountain water security

F Drenkhan, W Buytaert, JD Mackay, NE Barrand… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in the mountain cryosphere impact the water security of downstream
societies and the resilience of water-dependent ecosystems and their services. However …

Status and change of the cryosphere in the extended Hindu Kush Himalaya region

T Bolch, JM Shea, S Liu, FM Azam, Y Gao… - The Hindu Kush …, 2019 - Springer
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 …

Groundwater flow and storage processes in an inactive rock glacier

JS Harrington, A Mozil, M Hayashi… - Hydrological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Groundwater flow through coarse blocky landforms contributes to streamflow in mountain
watersheds, yet its role in the alpine hydrologic cycle has received relatively little attention …

Cryosphere–groundwater connectivity is a missing link in the mountain water cycle

M van Tiel, C Aubry-Wake, L Somers, C Andermann… - Nature Water, 2024 - nature.com
The mountain cryosphere and groundwater play pivotal roles in shaping the hydrological
cycle, yet their connectivity remains incompletely understood. Current knowledge on …

Hydrology of debris-covered glaciers in High Mountain Asia

KE Miles, B Hubbard, TDL Irvine-Fynn, ES Miles… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The hydrological characteristics of debris-covered glaciers are known to be fundamentally
different from those of clean-ice glaciers, even within the same climatological, geological …

Towards a conceptualization of the hydrological processes behind changes of young water fraction with elevation: a focus on mountainous alpine catchments

A Gentile, D Canone, N Ceperley… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2023 - hess.copernicus.org
The young water fraction (F yw*), defined as the fraction of catchment outflow with transit
times of less than 2–3 months, is increasingly used in hydrological studies that exploit the …

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 …

Sources of streamflow along a headwater catchment elevational gradient

RM Cowie, JF Knowles, KR Dailey, MW Williams… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract We used End-Member Mixing Analysis (EMMA) to investigate the spatiotemporal
variability of source water contributions to streamflow generation from three headwater …

A meta-analysis based review of quantifying the contributions of runoff components to streamflow in glacierized basins

Z He, D Duethmann, F Tian - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
Quantifying the contributions of runoff components (CRCs) to streamflow is of significant
importance for understanding the dynamics of water resources under changing climate in …