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 …

Remote sensing the evolution of debris-covered Panchi Nala-A glacier, India (1971-2021) from satellites and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

S Garg, PJ Navinkumar, A Godara, R Sahu… - Regional Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Supraglacial debris influences the glacier-climate relationship by altering the ablation
patterns of the debris-covered glaciers. The intricate surface morphology of debris-covered …

Microbial diversity and associated metabolic potential in the supraglacial habitat of a fast‐retreating glacier: a case study of Patsio glacier, North‐western Himalaya

M Rathore, RK Sinha, S Venkatachalam… - Environmental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In the present study, we investigated the microbial community composition and their
associated metabolic potentials using the 16S rRNA gene (V3–V4) and ITS (ITS1) amplicon …

[HTML][HTML] Mass balance and morphological evolution of the Dokriani Glacier, central Himalaya, India during 1999–2014

PK Garg, JS Yadav, SK Rai, A Shukla - Geoscience Frontiers, 2022 - Elsevier
Glaciological mass balance (MB) is considered the most direct, undelayed and unfiltered
response of the glaciers to climatic perturbations. However, it may inherit errors associated …

Direct, geodetic and simulated mass balance studies of the Kolahoi Glacier in the Kashmir Himalaya, India

SA Romshoo, T Abdullah, KO Murtaza, MH Bhat - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge of glacier mass balance (MB) is critical for understanding glacier-
climate interactions and projecting future water availability in the data-scarce Himalayan …

Factors controlling the net ecosystem production of cryoconite on Western Himalayan glaciers

MS Shamurailatpam, J Telling, JL Wadham… - Biogeochemistry, 2023 - Springer
In situ experiments were conducted to determine the net ecosystem production (NEP) in
cryoconite holes from the surface of two glaciers (Patsio glacier and Chhota Shigri glacier) in …

Hydrogeochemical characteristics of meltwater draining from Himalayan glaciers: a critical review

VB Singh, P Kumar - Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2022 - Springer
Hydrogeochemistry of glacial meltwater provides important information about the solute
acquisition processes, chemical weathering and associated CO2 consumption, atmospheric …

Estimation of annual and seasonal glaciological-based mass balance of Ladakh range in cold-arid Himalayan region–Case studies of Phuche and Khardung glaciers …

JK Dharpure, A Goswami, A Patel, SK Jain, AV Kulkarni - Polar Science, 2024 - Elsevier
The continuous estimation of glacier surface mass balance (MB) in the cold-arid trans-
Himalayan region is crucial for understanding glacier-atmospheric interactions and …

A comprehensive multidecadal glacier inventory dataset for the Chandra-Bhaga Basin, Western Himalaya, India

S Vatsal, A Bhardwaj, MF Azam… - Earth System …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
Delineation of Glaciers is a challenging task in the Himalaya due to its complex topography,
cloud cover, seasonal snow cover, hillshade, debris cover. Glacio-hydrological studies …

[HTML][HTML] Variations in glacier peak water timing and its influencing factors in High-Mountain Asia

H Lyu, G Fang, Y Chen, W Liang, Z Qiu, Y Li… - Fundamental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract High Mountain Asia (HMA) has the largest volume of glaciers outside the polar
region and protects approximately 800 million people in the downstream basins against …