Temporal inventory of glaciers in the Suru sub-basin, western Himalaya: impacts of  regional climate variability

Shukla, Aparna; Garg, Siddhi; Mehta, Manish; Kumar, Vinit; Shukla, Uma Kant

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1245-2020

Articles | Volume 12, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1245-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1245-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 2

Data description paper

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05 Jun 2020

Data description paper |

| 05 Jun 2020

Temporal inventory of glaciers in the Suru sub-basin, western Himalaya: impacts of regional climate variability

Aparna Shukla, Siddhi Garg, Manish Mehta, Vinit Kumar, and Uma Kant Shukla

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1245-2020-supplement

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Temporal inventory of glaciers in the Suru sub-basin, western Himalaya Aparna Shukla, Siddhi Garg, Manish Mehta, Vinit Kumar and Uma Kant Shukla https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.904131

Short summary

This research presents an updated glacier inventory (2017) of the Suru sub-basin, western Himalaya, India, which is useful for glacier-modelling studies. Glaciers here occur in two major Himalayan ranges: the Ladakh Range and the Greater Himalayan Range (GHR). Temporal glacier changes (46 years) suggest an overall degenerating pattern and a transitional response between the Karakoram and GHR glaciers. Local climate variability and unique topography induce heterogeneity in glacier response.