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Hilal Ahmad, Chen Ningsheng, Mahfuzur Rahman, Md Monirul Islam, Hamid Reza Pourghasemi, Syed Fahad Hussain, Jules Maurice Habumugisha, Enlong Liu, Han Zheng, Huayong Ni and Ashraf Dewan
The China?Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project passes through the Karakoram Highway in northern Pakistan, which is one of the most hazardous regions of the world. The most common hazards in this region are landslides and debris flows, which result i...
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Da Li, Donghui Shangguan and Muhammad Naveed Anjum
The China?Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a key hub for trade, is susceptible to glacial lake outburst floods. The distributions and types of glacial lakes in the CPEC are not well documented. In this study, cloud-free imagery acquired using the Lands...
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Nida Qayyum, Sajid Ghuffar, Hafiz Mughees Ahmad, Adeel Yousaf and Imran Shahid
Glacial lakes mapping using satellite remote sensing data are important for studying the effects of climate change as well as for the mitigation and risk assessment of a Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF). The 3U cubesat constellation of Planet Labs offe...
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Muhammad Shahid Iqbal, Zakir Hussain Dahri, Erik P Querner, Asif Khan and Nynke Hofstra
Devastating floods adversely affect human life and infrastructure. Various regions of the Hindukush-Karakoram-Himalayas receive intense monsoon rainfall, which, together with snow and glacier melt, produce intense floods. The Kabul river basin originates...
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Malte Knoche, Ralf Merz, Martin Lindner and Stephan M. Weise
With respect to meteorological changes and glacier evolution, the southern Pamir Mountains are a transition zone between the Pamirs, Hindu Kush and Karakoram, which are water towers of Central Asia. In this study, we compare runoff and climate trends in ...
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Iliyana D. Dobreva, Michael P. Bishop and Andrew B. G. Bush
Understanding climate-glacier dynamics in High Mountain Asia is of critical importance to address issues including water resources, sea-level rise, mountain geodynamics, natural hazards and ecosystem sustainability. The Karakoram Himalaya is arguably the...
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Jiao Liu, Min Luo, Tie Liu, Anming Bao, Philippe De Maeyer, Xianwei Feng and Xi Chen
Climate change and the impacts on hydrological processes in Karakoram region are highly important to the available water resources in downstream oases. In this study, a modified quantile perturbation method (QPM), which was improved by considering the fr...
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Zhenliang Yin, Qi Feng, Shiyin Liu, Songbing Zou, Jing Li, Linshan Yang and Ravinesh C. Deo
In this paper, a glacial module based on an enhanced temperature-index approach was successfully introduced into the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model to simulate the glacier runoff and water balance of a glacierized watershed, the mountainous ...
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Susanne Schmidt and Marcus Nüsser
Climatic differences between monsoonal and cold-arid parts of the South Asian mountain arc account for the uncertainty regarding regional variations in glacier retreat. In this context, the upper Indus Basin of Ladakh, sandwiched between the Himalayan an...
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Xiaolei Wang, Lin Sun, Yiqing Zhang and Yi Luo
Due to the scarcity of field observations and geodetic measurements in catchments in the Karakoram Mountains in Western China, obtaining precipitation data for the high mountains involves large uncertainties and difficulties. In this study, we used a fun...
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