Monitoring of glaciers, climate, and runoff in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya mountains / Donald Alford, David Archer, Bodo Bookhagen, Wolfgang Grabs, Sarah Halvorson, Kenneth Hewitt, Walter Immerzeel, Ulrich Kamp, and Brandon Krumwiede.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: [Place of publication not identified] : [The World Bank], [2014].Description: xxii, 124 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 30 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • GE320. A33.
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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).
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Cover title.
“SAWI South Asia Water Initiative”—cover page.
“Report No. 67668-SAS”—cover page.
“The World Bank ; IBRD-IDA”—cover page.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

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).

English