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    Glacier retreat and lake outburst floods in the central Himalayan region from 2000 to 2022

    Recent research on the Himalayan cryosphere has increasingly been focused on climate uncertainty and regional variations, considering features such as glacier recession, lake expansion, outburst floods, and re...

    Abhishek Banerjee, Shichang Kang, Wanqin Guo, Michael E. Meadows… in Natural Hazards (2024)

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    Underestimated mass loss from lake-terminating glaciers in the greater Himalaya

    Long-term satellite-based observations have helped quantify glacier mass change and the response of the hydrosphere to glacier changes. However, subaqueous mass loss associated with lake-terminating glaciers i...

    Guoqing Zhang, Tobias Bolch, Tandong Yao, David R. Rounce… in Nature Geoscience (2023)

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    Understanding the 2004 glacier detachment in the Amney Machen Mountains, northeastern Tibetan Plateau, via multi-phase modeling

    Glacial detachment is a newly emerged glacial hazard type, and more than 20 cases have been identified worldwide. The **ao Ma Glacier in the Amney Machen Mountains, northeastern Tibetan Plateau, experienced an...

    Taigang Zhang, Weicai Wang, Ziheng Shen, Nuo Zhan, Zhongyan Wang, Baosheng An in Landslides (2023)

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    Retreat rates of debris-covered and debris-free glaciers in the Koshi River Basin, central Himalayas, from 1975 to 2010

    Debris-covered glaciers are common in the Himalayas and play a key role in understanding future regional water availability and management. Previous studies of regional glacial changes have often neglected deb...

    Yang **ang, Tandong Yao, Yang Gao, Guoqing Zhang… in Environmental Earth Sciences (2018)

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    Short-term variability in the dates of the Indian monsoon onset and retreat on the southern and northern slopes of the central Himalayas as determined by precipitation stable isotopes

    This project launched the first study to compare the stable isotopes (δ18O and δD) in daily precipitation at Kathmandu (located on the southern slope of the central Himalayas) and Tingri (located on the northern...

    Wusheng Yu, Tandong Yao, Lide Tian, Yaoming Ma, Rong Wen… in Climate Dynamics (2016)

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    Methods for assessing regional glacial lake variation and hazard in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau: a case study from the Boshula mountain range, China

    Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau are undergoing an accelerating retreat under climatic warming, with the immediate result of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) becoming increasingly frequent. Glacial lakes in...

    Weicai Wang, Tandong Yao, Wei Yang, Daniel Joswiak… in Environmental Earth Sciences (2012)