Rock glaciers represent hidden water stores in the Himalaya.
Climate change
Himalaya
Hydrological significance
Rock glacier
Water resources
Water volume equivalent
Journal
The Science of the total environment
ISSN: 1879-1026
Titre abrégé: Sci Total Environ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0330500
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 Nov 2021
01 Nov 2021
Historique:
received:
28
08
2020
revised:
13
01
2021
accepted:
18
01
2021
pubmed:
3
5
2021
medline:
7
9
2021
entrez:
2
5
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
In the high mountains of Asia, ongoing glacier retreat threatens human and ecological systems through reduced water availability. Rock glaciers are climatically more resistant than glaciers and contain valuable water volume equivalents (WVEQ). Across High Mountain Asia (HMA) the WVEQ of rock glaciers is poorly quantified, and thus their hydrological significance versus glaciers is unknown. Here we present the first systematic assessment of Himalayan rock glaciers, totalling ~25,000 landforms with an areal coverage of ~3747 km
Identifiants
pubmed: 33933287
pii: S0048-9697(21)00436-8
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145368
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Water
059QF0KO0R
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
145368Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2021. Published by Elsevier B.V.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.