Status and change of the cryosphere in the Extended Hindu Kush Himalaya Region

Tobias Bolch; Joseph Michael Shea; Shiyin Liu; Farooq Mohd Azam; Yang Gao; Stephan Gruber; Walter Immerzeel; Anil Kulkarni; Huilin Li; Adnan Tahir; Guoqing Zhang; Yinsheng Zhang; Argha Bannerjee; Etienne Berthier; Fanny Brun; Andreas Kääb; Phillip Kraaijenbrink; Geir Moholdt; Lindsey Nicholson; Nick Pepin; Adina Racoviteanu

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-92288-1_7

Status and change of the cryosphere in the Extended Hindu Kush Himalaya Region

Tobias Bolch
, Joseph Michael Shea
, Shiyin Liu
, Farooq Mohd Azam
, Yang Gao
, Stephan Gruber
, Walter Immerzeel
, Anil Kulkarni
, Huilin Li
, Adnan Tahir
, Guoqing Zhang
, Yinsheng Zhang
, Argha Bannerjee
, Etienne Berthier
, Fanny Brun
, Andreas Kääb
, Phillip Kraaijenbrink
, Geir Moholdt
, Lindsey Nicholson
, Nick Pepin

Adina Racoviteanu

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Abstract

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	P. Wester, A. Mishra, A. Mukherji, A. B. Shrestha
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	7
Pages	209-255
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-92288-1
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-92287-4, 978-3-319-95051-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92288-1_7
Publication status	Published - Jan 2019

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Bolch, T., Shea, J. M., Liu, S., Azam, F. M., Gao, Y., Gruber, S., Immerzeel, W., Kulkarni, A., Li, H., Tahir, A., Zhang, G., Zhang, Y., Bannerjee, A., Berthier, E., Brun, F., Kääb, A., Kraaijenbrink, P., Moholdt, G., Nicholson, L., ... Racoviteanu, A. (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 Michael; Liu, Shiyin et al.
The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment: Mountains, Climate Change, Sustainability and People. ed. / P. Wester; A. Mishra; A. Mukherji; A. B. Shrestha. Springer, 2019. p. 209-255.

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