We present a comprehensive review of the status and changes in glacier length (since the
1850s), area and mass (since the 1960s) along the Himalayan-Karakoram (HK) region and …

About 800 million people depend in part on meltwater from the thousands of glaciers in the
high mountains of Asia. Water stress makes this region vulnerable to drought, but glaciers …

Snow, glaciers and permafrost translate fluctuations of atmospheric conditions and highlight
current environmental changes. Monitoring of these changes is one of the major objectives …

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 …

Abstract The Tienshan Mountains, with its status as “water tower”, is the main water source
and ecological barrier in Central Asia. The rapid warming affected precipitation amounts and …

Mapping of glacier extents from automated classification of optical satellite images has
become a major application of the freely available images from Landsat. A widely applied …

Region-wide averaging of Himalayan glacier mass change has masked any catchment or
glacier-scale variability in glacier recession; thus the role of a number of glaciological …

Mountain glaciers integrate climate processes to provide an unmatched signal of regional
climate forcing. However, extracting the climate signal via intercomparison of regional …

Abstract The Tien Shan and Pamir mountains host over 28,000 glaciers providing essential
water resources for increasing water demand in Central Asia. A disequilibrium between …

Since 2000, a vast archive of stereo-images has been built by the Advanced Spaceborne
Thermal Emission and Reflection (ASTER) satellite. Several studies already extracted …