Challenges in understanding the variability of the cryosphere in the Himalaya and its impact on regional water resources

BD Vishwakarma, R Ramsankaran, MF Azam… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The Himalaya plays a vital role in regulating the freshwater availability for nearly a billion
people living in the Indus, Ganga, and Brahmaputra River basins. Due to climate change …

The decline in western disturbance activity over Northern India in recent decades

A Javed, K Anshuman, P Kumar, D Sachan - Climatic Change, 2023 - Springer
Western disturbances (WDs) are upper-tropospheric synoptic-scale cyclonic storms that
travel eastwards embedded in the subtropical westerly jet stream. They are of veritable …

Increasing frequency and lengthening season of western disturbances are linked to increasing strength and delayed northward migration of the subtropical jet

KMR Hunt - Weather and Climate Dynamics, 2024 - wcd.copernicus.org
Western disturbances (WDs) are cyclonic storms that travel along the subtropical jet,
bringing the majority of seasonal and extreme precipitation to the Hindu Kush, Karakoram …

Assessing the Monthly Trends in Precipitable Water Vapor over the Indian Subcontinent

S Rani, P Maharana, S Mal - Annals of the American Association of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This study estimates the trends in precipitable water vapor (PWV), atmospheric moisture
budget (AMB), and the factors influencing them: air temperature, evapotranspiration (ET) …

Characteristic Changes in the Strengthening Western Disturbances over Karakoram in Recent Decades

A Javed, P Kumar - Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 2024 - Springer
Western disturbances (WDs) are upper-tropospheric mid-latitude synoptic systems
propagating eastward along the subtropical westerly jet stream. They are capable of causing …

Seasonal Effects of the Tibetan Plateau on Cyclonic Transient Eddies: A System-Centered View

Q Ren, KI Hodges, R Schiemann, Y Dai… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Using an objective feature-tracking algorithm and the fifth major global reanalysis produced
by ECMWF data (ERA5), the seasonal behaviors of cyclonic transient eddies (cyclones) at …

Impacts of supraglacial lakes and snowmelt on glacier velocity on the example of the Baltoro Glacier in Pakistan

A Wendleder - 2024 - elib.dlr.de
Millionen von Menschen in Pakistan leben entlang des Indus und sind auf das
Schmelzwasser der Gletscher im Karakorum angewiesen. Gletscherschmelzwasser steuert …

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M Scott - nsidc.org
Freshly formed sea ice can be as thin as a few sheets of paper or as thick as a one-story
house, depending on how long it has existed. Measuring sea ice thickness is harder than …