glaciers
<p>The May-12 Richter-7.9 earthquake in the Sichuan province of China may be caused by glacier-melting caused in turn by global warming. The result is so common it even has a name "glacial earthquake". The Sichuan earthquake could be one of these glacial earthquakes, and if so certainly not the first one, nor the last.</p>
<p>Relevant to Sichuan are the...
The presentation described the resolutions of the global e-conference on 'Climate Change and the Himalayan Glaciers' held 7-30 May, 2007.
The following problems were highlighted:
- Global warming and climate change are no longer the issues of debate.
- Mountainous regions are relatively more prone to these effects and snow and ice covered areas are most sensitive.
-...
Dawa Steven Sherpa, Managing Director of Asian Trekking (P) Ltd made his first ascent of Mt. Everest in the Spring of 2007. A new insight into some of the threats to his roots in the Khumbu inspired him to take up the cause of Global Warming and Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOF) with special focus on the Khumbu. He decided to organize a program with a platform...
The Global Change and Mountain Regions (GLOCHAMORE) Research Strategy has been developed to guide managers of Mountain Biosphere Reserves (MBRs) and scientists in planning and implementing global change research.
The research strategy is the outcome of 5 workshops and the final Open Science Conference. In December 2005, the Research Strategy was sent to...
The status and dynamics of glaciers are crucial for agriculture in semiarid parts of Central Asia, since river flow is characterized by major runoff in spring and summer, supplied by glacier- and snowmelt. Ideally, this coincides with the critical period of water demand for irrigation. The present study shows a clear trend in glacier retreat between 1963 and 2000 in the Sokoluk watershed, a...
A nonlinear back propagation network (BPN) has been trained with high-resolution multiproxy reconstructions of temperature and precipitation (input data) and glacier length variations of the Alpine Lower Grindelwald Glacier, Switzerland (output data). The model was then forced with two regional climate scenarios of temperature and precipitation derived from a probabilistic approach: The first...
Recent concerns related to the potential impacts of the retreat of Himalayan glaciers on the hydrology of rivers originating in the catchment basins of the Himalaya have not been accompanied by any analysis describing the role of glaciers in the hydrologic regime of these mountains. This note presents an estimate of glacier runoff from the altitudinal belt above 5000 meters above sea level for...
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