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High Mountain Asian glacier response to climate revealed by multi-temporal satellite observations since the 1960s
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dc.contributor.author | Bhattacharya, Atanu | |
dc.contributor.author | Bolch, Tobias | |
dc.contributor.author | Mukherjee, Kriti | |
dc.contributor.author | King, Owen George Ahren | |
dc.contributor.author | Kapitsa, Vassiliy | |
dc.contributor.author | Neckel, Niklas | |
dc.contributor.author | Yao, Tandong | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-13T14:30:05Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-07-13T14:30:05Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-07-05 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Bhattacharya , A , Bolch , T , Mukherjee , K , King , O G A , Kapitsa , V , Neckel , N & Yao , T 2021 , ' High Mountain Asian glacier response to climate revealed by multi-temporal satellite observations since the 1960s ' , Nature Communications , vol. 12 , 4133 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24180-y | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2041-1723 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 274079050 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: b72b37cd-b6ed-470c-9702-5df8410f7769 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-8201-5059/work/96817669 | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 85109215365 | |
dc.identifier.other | WOS: 000672713500013 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/23534 | |
dc.description | Funding: This study was supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDA20100300) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (200021E_177652/1). NN received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme (No. 689443). | en |
dc.description.abstract | Knowledge about the long-term response of High Mountain Asian glaciers to climatic variations is paramount because of their important role in sustaining Asian river flow. Here, a satellite-based time series of glacier mass balance for seven climatically different regions across High Mountain Asia since the 1960s shows that glacier mass loss rates have persistently increased at most sites. Regional glacier mass budgets ranged from −0.40 ± 0.07 m w.e.a−1 in Central and Northern Tien Shan to −0.06 ± 0.07 m w.e.a−1 in Eastern Pamir, with considerable temporal and spatial variability. Highest rates of mass loss occurred in Central Himalaya and Northern Tien Shan after 2015 and even in regions where glaciers were previously in balance with climate, such as Eastern Pamir, mass losses prevailed in recent years. An increase in summer temperature explains the long-term trend in mass loss and now appears to drive mass loss even in regions formerly sensitive to both temperature and precipitation. | |
dc.format.extent | 13 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Nature Communications | en |
dc.rights | Copyright © The Author(s) 2021. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. | en |
dc.subject | GE Environmental Sciences | en |
dc.subject | 3rd-DAS | en |
dc.subject.lcc | GE | en |
dc.title | High Mountain Asian glacier response to climate revealed by multi-temporal satellite observations since the 1960s | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.description.version | Publisher PDF | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Environmental Change Research Group | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Bell-Edwards Geographic Data Institute | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Geography & Sustainable Development | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24180-y | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.date.embargoedUntil | 2021-07-05 | |
dc.identifier.url | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24180-y#Sec21 | en |
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