TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alford,Donald
TI  - Monitoring of glaciers, climate, and runoff in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya mountains / 
AV  - GE320. A33.
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - [Place of publication not identified] : 
PB  - [The World Bank], 
KW  - Environmental management – Afghanistan
KW  - Environmental protection – Afghanistan
KW  - Climate change – Afghanistan
KW  - Humanitarian assistance – Afghanistan
KW  - Afghanistan – Environmental conditions
KW  - Afghanistan – Politics and government – 2001-
N1  - Cover title.
“SAWI South Asia Water Initiative”—cover page.
“Report No. 67668-SAS”—cover page.
“The World Bank ; IBRD-IDA”—cover page
; Contents: About the authors—Abbreviations and acronyms—Executive summary—1. Introduction—2. Climate monitoring—3. Glacier mass balance monitoring—4. Mountain haydrology—5. Indigenous glacier monitoring—6. Satellite imagery and digital elevation models—7. Monitoring of the HKH cry sphere—References
N2  - Summary: “Effective monitoring of the hydro meteorological environment of the Hindu Kush-Himalaya (HKH) Mountains – the collection of information defining the climate, hydrology, and glaciers of these mountains – has proven difficult because of problems of accessibility, the complex nature of the mountain environment, lack of conceptual models of the mountain hydro meteorological environment, and inadequate analysis of the existing databases from monitoring of the Indus and Ganges River basins of India, Nepal, and Pakistan…”—(page summary)
ER  -