Manifestations and mechanisms of the Karakoram glacier Anomaly

D Farinotti, WW Immerzeel, RJ de Kok, DJ Quincey… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Global-scale glacier shrinkage is one of the most prominent signs of ongoing climatic
change. However, important differences in glacier response exist at the regional scale, and …

Monitoring the dynamic changes in vegetation cover using spatio-temporal remote sensing data from 1984 to 2020

S Hussain, S Qin, W Nasim, MA Bukhari, M Mubeen… - Atmosphere, 2022 - mdpi.com
Anthropogenic activities and natural climate changes are the central driving forces of global
ecosystems and agriculture changes. Climate changes, such as rainfall and temperature …

Horizon scan of transboundary concerns impacting snow leopard landscapes in Asia

H Sultan, W Rashid, J Shi, I Rahim, M Nafees… - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
The high-altitude region of Asia is prone to natural resource degradation caused by a variety
of natural and anthropogenic factors that also threaten the habitat of critical top predator …

Early twenty-first century glacier mass losses in the Indus Basin constrained by density assumptions

S Muhammad, L Tian, A Khan - Journal of Hydrology, 2019 - Elsevier
Glaciers in the upper Indus supply more than half of the river water, are experiencing
significant melting with a debated fate. The recent melting rate is still contained by …

Contribution of winter precipitation to tree growth persists until the late growing season in the Karakoram of northern Pakistan

R Huang, H Zhu, E Liang, A Bräuning, L Zhong, C Xu… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Identifying the influence of seasonal source water on tree growth is essential to understand
the effect of climate change on forest dynamics. However, due to the lack of available long …

Multi-century (635-year) spring season precipitation reconstruction from northern Pakistan revealed increasing extremes

N Khan, NP Gaire, O Rahmonov, R Ullah - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Hindu Kush Himalaya region is experiencing rapid climate change with
adverse impacts in multiple sectors. To put recent climatic changes into a long-term context …

A tree ring-based winter temperature reconstruction for the southeastern Tibetan Plateau since 1340 CE

R Huang, H Zhu, E Liang, B Liu, J Shi, R Zhang… - Climate Dynamics, 2019 - Springer
Climatic change is exhibiting significant effects on the ecosystem of the Tibetan Plateau
(TP), a climate-sensitive area. In particularly, winter frost, freezing events and snow …

Status of glaciers and climate change of East Karakoram in early twenty-first century

HS Negi, A Kumar, N Kanda, NK Thakur… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study aims to assess the glaciers change status in Shyok basin, East Karakoram in
terms of area and mass balance, and to ascertain if glaciers in this part of Karakoram also …

A hydrometeorological perspective on the Karakoram anomaly using unique valley‐based synoptic weather observations

F Bashir, X Zeng, H Gupta… - Geophysical Research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Glaciers in the eastern Hindukush, western Karakoram, and northwestern Himalayan
mountain ranges of Northern Pakistan are not responding to global warming in the same …

A winter temperature reconstruction for the Lidder Valley, Kashmir, Northwest Himalaya based on tree-rings of Pinus wallichiana

SK Shah, U Pandey, N Mehrotra, GC Wiles… - Climate Dynamics, 2019 - Springer
A regional, 175 year long, tree-ring width chronology (spanning 1840–2014 CE) was
developed for Pinus wallichiana AB Jacks.(Himalayan Blue pine) from the Lidder Valley …