Rising river flows throughout the twenty-first century in two Himalayan glacierized watersheds

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 742-745

  Immerzeel, W W ^a,b   Pellicciotti, F ^b   Bierkens, M F P ^a,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c DELTARES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; GLACIER RETREAT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; MELTWATER; MONSOON; RIVER BASIN; RIVER FLOW; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER DEMAND; WATERSHED;

BAGMATI; BALTORO GLACIER; GANGES RIVER; GILGIT-BALTISTAN; HIMALAYAS; INDUS RIVER; LANGTANG VALLEY; NEPAL; PAKISTAN;

EID: 84883373664     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1896     Document Type: Article

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