diverging trends in rain‐on‐snow over high Mountain Asia

FZ Maina, SV Kumar - Earth's Future, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Rain‐on‐snow (ROS) over snow‐dominated regions such as High Mountain Asia
(HMA) modulates snowmelt and runoff and is key contributor in influencing water availability …

Irrigation-driven groundwater depletion in the Ganges-Brahmaputra basin decreases the streamflow in the Bay of Bengal

FZ Maina, A Getirana, SV Kumar, M Saharia… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
Ganges and Brahmaputra, two of Asia's most prominent rivers, have a crucial role in
Southeast Asia's geopolitics and economy and are home to one of the world's biggest …

Landslide hazard is projected to increase across High Mountain Asia

TA Stanley, RB Soobitsky, PM Amatya… - Earth's …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract High Mountain Asia has long been known as a hotspot for landslide risk, and
studies have suggested that landslide hazard is likely to increase in this region over the …

Evaluation of ERA5 Reanalysis Precipitation Data in the Yarlung Zangbo River Basin of the Tibetan Plateau

Y Chen, M Ding, G Zhang, Y Wang… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Atmospheric simulation-based gridded precipitation datasets have been widely used in
hydrological and land surface modeling, but may contain larger uncertainties in …

Irrigation and warming drive the decreases in surface albedo over High Mountain Asia

FZ Maina, SV Kumar, C Gangodagamage - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Human and climate induced land surface changes resulting from irrigation, snow cover
decreases, and greening impact the surface albedo over High Mountain Asia (HMA). Here …

The magnitude and frequency of detected precipitation determine the accuracy performance of precipitation data sets in the high mountains of Asia

Y Deng, X Wang, H Ruan, J Lin, X Chen, Y Chen… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The grid-based precipitation dataset is an important source for studying precipitation change
in the high mountains of Asia due to where precipitation stations are sparse. It is essential to …

Anthropogenic influences alter the response and seasonality of evapotranspiration: A case study over two High Mountain Asia basins

FZ Maina, SV Kumar - Geophysical Research Letters, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Earth's vegetation has been increasing over the past decades, altering water and energy
cycles by changing evapotranspiration (ET). Greening, caused by climatic and …

On the challenges of simulating streamflow in glacierized catchments of the Himalayas using satellite and reanalysis forcing data

AV Nair, S Wi, RB Kayastha, C Gleason… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Hydrologic assessment of climate change impacts on complex terrains and data-sparse
regions like High Mountain Asia is a major challenge. Combining hydrological models with …

Hydrologic applicability of satellite-based precipitation estimates for irrigation water management in the data-scarce region

S Bista, R Baniya, S Sharma, GR Ghimire, J Panthi… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Reliable precipitation estimates are crucial for planning and managing water resources,
monitoring hydrologic extremes, and fulfilling irrigation water requirements. Accurate …

Development of a multidecadal land reanalysis over High Mountain Asia

FZ Maina, Y Xue, SV Kumar, A Getirana, S McLarty… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Anthropogenic and climatic changes affect the water and energy cycles in High Mountain
Asia (HMA), home to over two billion people and the largest reservoirs of freshwater outside …