Status and change of the cryosphere in the extended Hindu Kush Himalaya region

Tobias Bolch; Joseph M. Shea; Shiyin Liu; Farooq M. Azam; Yang Gao; Stephan Gruber; Walter W. Immerzeel; Anil Kulkarni; Huilin Li; Adnan A. Tahir; Guoqing Zhang; Yinsheng Zhang

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Status and change of the cryosphere in the extended Hindu Kush Himalaya region

Tobias Bolch, Joseph M. Shea, Shiyin Liu, Farooq M. Azam, Yang Gao, Stephan Gruber, Walter W. Immerzeel, Anil Kulkarni, Huilin Li, Adnan A. Tahir, Guoqing Zhang, Yinsheng Zhang

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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 Himalaya (HKH) region, including the Pamirs, Tien Shan and Alatua, the cryosphere is a key freshwater resource, playing a vital and significant role in local and regional hydrology and ecology. Industry, agriculture, and hydroelectric power generation rely on timely and sufficient delivery of water in major river systems; changes in the cryospheric system may thus pose challenges for disaster risk reduction in the extended HKH region.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment
Subtitle of host publication	Mountains, Climate Change, Sustainability and People
Editors	Philippus Wester, Arabinda Mishra, Aditi Mukherji, Arun Bhakta Shrestha
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	7
Pages	209-255
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319922881
ISBN (Print)	9783319922874, 9783319950518
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92288-1_7
Publication status	Published - 5 Jan 2019

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Bolch, T., Shea, J. M., Liu, S., Azam, F. M., Gao, Y., Gruber, S., Immerzeel, W. W., Kulkarni, A., Li, H., Tahir, A. A., Zhang, G., & Zhang, Y. (2019). Status and change of the cryosphere in the extended Hindu Kush Himalaya region. In P. Wester, A. Mishra, A. Mukherji, & A. B. Shrestha (Eds.), The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment: Mountains, Climate Change, Sustainability and People (pp. 209-255). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92288-1_7

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Status and change of the cryosphere in the extended Hindu Kush Himalaya region. / Bolch, Tobias; Shea, Joseph M.; Liu, Shiyin et al.
The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment: Mountains, Climate Change, Sustainability and People. ed. / Philippus Wester; Arabinda Mishra; Aditi Mukherji; Arun Bhakta Shrestha. Springer, 2019. p. 209-255.

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