The glaciers of the Hindu Kush Himalayas: current status and observed changes from the 1980s to 2010

International Journal of Water Resources Development

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 161-173

  Bajracharya, Samjwal Ratna ^a   Maharjan, Sudan Bikash ^a   Shrestha, Finu ^a   Guo, Wanqin ^b   Liu, Shiyin ^b   Immerzeel, Walter ^c   Shrestha, Basanta ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT   (Nepal)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

decadal; glacier area changes; Landsat; remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AREA-CHANGES; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT; CURRENT STATUS; DECADAL; HINDU-KUSH-HIMALAYAS; LANDSAT;

REMOTE SENSING;

ALTITUDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER RETREAT; MELTING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; TERRAIN;

HIMALAYAS; HINDU KUSH;

EID: 84929505795     PISSN: 07900627     EISSN: 13600648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2015.1005731     Document Type: Article

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