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Half-a-century (1971–2020) of glacier shrinkage and climatic variability in the Bhaga basin, western Himalaya by Suresh Das; Milap Chand Sharma; Madhav Krishna Murari; Marcus Nüsser; Susanne Schmidt is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.
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Abstract Glacier shrinkage is a globally occurring phenomena. High-resolution change detection based on frequent mapping and monitoring of high-altitude glaciers is necessary to precisely evaluate future water availability and to understand glacier evolution under different climatic scenarios in the Hindukush-Karakoram-Himalayan (HKH) region. This also holds true for the Bhaga basin of the western Himalaya. This study investigates glacier and glacier lake changes in the Bhaga basin, over the last five decades based on satellite imagery including Corona KH4 (1971), Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+; 2000), Linear Imaging Self-Scanning Sensor (LISS IV; 2013), and Sentinel 2 (2020). Regional temperature and precipitation trends were evaluated from gridded climatic datasets (1900–2020). In the Bhaga basin 306 glaciers (>0.2 km2) were mapped with a total area of 360.3 ± 4.0 km2, of which 55.7 ± 0.6 km2 was covered with debris in 2013. The total glacier covered area decreased by ∼8.2 ± 1.5 % (0.16 ± 0.03 % yr−1) during the entire observation period 1971–2020, with noticeable heterogeneity between tributary watersheds. In the past two decades (2000–2020), the deglaciation rate
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- Author
- Suresh Das; Milap Chand Sharma; Madhav Krishna Murari; Marcus Nüsser; Susanne Schmidt
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)