Rising and falling river flows: contrasting signals of climate change and glacier mass balance from the eastern and western Karakoram;Débits à la hausse et à la baisse : signaux contrastés due changement climatique et de l’équilibre massique des glaciers du Karakoram oriental et occidental

Hydrological Sciences Journal

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2062-2085

  Mukhopadhyay, Biswajit ^a,d   Khan, Asif ^b   Gautam, Ritesh ^c,e  

^a JACOBS ENGINEERING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d Water Resources   (United States)

^e INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Climate change; Glacier mass balance; Hydrologic trend analysis; Karakoram anomaly; Karakoram glaciers; Upper Indus basin

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; FLOW OF WATER; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; RIVERS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WATERSHEDS;

GEODETIC MEASUREMENTS; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; INTEGRATED RESPONSE; MONSOONAL PRECIPITATION; NON-PARAMETRIC TEST; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; SMOOTHING TECHNIQUES; STOCHASTIC COMPONENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; MELTING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER FLOW; TREND ANALYSIS;

INDUS BASIN; KARAKORAM;

EID: 84951877600     PISSN: 02626667     EISSN: 21503435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2014.947291     Document Type: Article

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