Search Results - "glacier"
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Basin-wide water accounting based on remote sensing data: an application for the Indus Basin
Published 2013“…The water storage systems that were effected are groundwater storage (30 km3), surface water storage (9 km3), and glaciers and snow storage (2 km3). Evapotranspiration of rainfall or "landscape ET? …”
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Den globala uppvärmningen
Published 2010“…Sea level rising, extreme temperatures are becoming more common, glaciers and other ice caps melt and storms becomes more intense when they appear. …”
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Water, climate and adaptation: a conversation with Dr Aditi Mukherji
Published 2025“…Despite the Himalayas being the water towers of Asia, settlements in the middle elevations — too far from glaciers and too high above river valleys — faced acute scarcity. …”
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Understanding hydrological cycle dynamics due to changing land use and land cover: Congo Basin study
Published 2008“…It is surrounded by plateaus merging into savannas in the south, mountainous terraces and grassland in the west and mountainous glaciers in the east. Savanna and Evergreen Broadleaf forest are projected to be cleared off in places to be replaced by dryland, cropland and pasture. …”
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Water resources, water productivity, and poverty in the Indus-Ganges River Basin
Published 2013“…The upper reaches of the basin are in the high Himalayas and seriously influenced by the melting of snow and glaciers and impending climate change. The average land and water productivity for the predominant rice-wheat cropping system is low with only about 5 per cent of the basin in the northwest (a regional “bright-spot”) having high productivity that is central to South Asia’s food security. …”
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Klimat i miljökonsekvensbeskrivningar : hantering av klimatförändringar och extrema väderhändelser i MKB
Published 2008“…The oceans will rise due to thermal expansion and melting of the glaciers. The wind is expected to be stronger and waves bigger along Sweden's shoreline. …”
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Climate-smart agriculture in South Asia: opportunities and constraints in scaling out [Abstract only]
Published 2015“…Climate change in the region is manifested by depleting glaciers, increasing coastal erosion, frequent heat waves, rising sea level, frequent floods and droughts and varying rainfall patterns. …”
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