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JOURNAL OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages 79-88Publisher
IOS PRESS
DOI: 10.3233/JCC210007
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Glaciers; Deglaciation; Himalaya; Remote Sensing; Chandra-Bhaga; Spatial-temporal change
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Glaciers serve as natural indicators of climate change and natural buffers of the water cycle. A study on the Chandra-Bhaga basin showed a 16.7% loss in glacier area, with smaller and medium-sized glaciers melting at a faster rate compared to larger ones.
Glaciers act as natural indicators of climate response and natural buffers of the hydrological cycle. Hence, continuous monitoring of glaciers is very crucial for which remote sensing techniques have emerged as a powerful tool to understand the micro-level variation and dynamics of glaciers. Unfortunately, a database involving complete basin-level approach and an extensive temporal range is not available for the entire Chandra-Bhaga (CB) sub-basin. Thus, the present investigation attempts to account for the extent of deglaciation in the CB basin showing that 16.7 percent of the glaciated area has been lost during 1989-2019. Moreover, the last three decades have witnessed a rapid rate of loss for small and medium-sized glaciers as compared to larger glaciers. Adding to it, the basin has also shown an upwards shift of mean elevation in this period. Over the last decade, an increasing temperature in the western Himalayas and Hindu Kush regions, as asserted by previous studies, have led to spatio-temporal changes in the glaciated area. The extent of deglaciation alongwith the glacier-climate behaviour and response can also provide a link to measure the topographical parameters.
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