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

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 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

^*Corresponding author for this work

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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
Publisher	Springer
Pages	209-255
Number of pages	47
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319922881
ISBN (Print)	9783319922874
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92288-1_7
Publication status	Published - 1 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 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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