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Resolving turbulence over debris

Taking stock of the growing glaciers in Asia

Ranking world’s water towers

A different view on the Karakoram Vortex

Accumulation measurements in Pamir

Glacier response to natural and anthropogenic climate change

Debris supply from lateral moraines

Testing different methods to model melt in HMA

Light-absorbing particles in the Himalaya

Resolving turbulence over debris

Taking stock of the growing glaciers in Asia

Ranking world’s water towers

A different view on the Karakoram Vortex

Accumulation measurements in Pamir

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Projects

Climbing the Asian Water Tower

Climbing the Asian Water Tower

Identify and quantify regional differences in greater Himalayan glacio-hydrology and to elucidate climate change induced alterations in water availability and the occurrence of extreme precipitation events.

Closing the Himalayan Water Cycle

Closing the Himalayan Water Cycle

To elucidate and quantify the timing and magnitude of poorly understood components of the Himalayan water cycle with a particular focus on high altitude precipitation, glacier dynamics and snow processes

Pan-TPE

Study westerly-monsoon interaction in Pan-Third Pole region and its implications for the environment

SustaIndus

Science to support the SDGs and sustainable water management in the transboundary Indus river basin.

Tibetan Lakes

Understand the drivers of change of the lakes on the Tibetan Plateau

More projects

Water flowing out the floodgates of the #ThreeGorgesDam can be monitored from space
#Sentinel1 image on July 18 vs. aerial picture on July 17 (source latimes.com/world-nation/s… )

Water flowing out the floodgates of the #ThreeGorgesDam can be monitored from space
#Sentinel1 image on July 18 vs. aerial picture on July 17 (source https://t.co/qthDUzn2SB )

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Impressive new work by @EdinGlaciology scientists. The next level for high-frequency (monthly!) geodetic #glacier mass budgets, at regional scales. On the reading list. twitter.com/EGU_TC/status/…

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@AshokMi98488926

earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ima…

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In news not making headlines this week:

"Flooding in Assam and Nepal kills hundreds, displaces millions"
"One-third of Bangladesh under water in one of worst deluges to hit region"
"Worst flooding in decades endangers China’s Three Gorges Dam, 40m people affected"

#climate

In news not making headlines this week:

"Flooding in Assam and Nepal kills hundreds, displaces millions"
"One-third of Bangladesh under water in one of worst deluges to hit region"
"Worst flooding in decades endangers China’s Three Gorges Dam, 40m people affected"

#climate

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Our new paper led by Vincent Vionnet is now up for discussion in The Cryosphere "Multi-scale snowdrift-permitting modelling of mountain snowpack " /cc @brianmenounos @sgascoin @nicwayone
tc.copernicus.org/preprints/t…

Our new paper led by Vincent Vionnet is now up for discussion in The Cryosphere "Multi-scale snowdrift-permitting modelling of mountain snowpack " /cc @brianmenounos @sgascoin @nicwayone
https://t.co/BtaagltbAO

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How much do melting glaciers contribute to today’s rising sea levels?

Investigation by @cozyfujita @matthias_huss @immerzeel @philipkraai @FabClimate @HarryZeko. Written by @KateWheeling

eos.org/research-spotl…

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First job opening for our HiRISE project now online! Interested in a fully-funded PhD project on polar remote sensing as part of a young, multidisciplinary team, incl @AimeeSlangen, @StefLhermitte and @DewiLeBars ? Look no further! uu.nl/en/organisatio…

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Interested in monitoring river flows using videos? If so, check out KLT-IV v1.0. This new software is freely available to download from sourceforge.net/projects/klt-… (1/4)

Interested in monitoring river flows using videos? If so, check out KLT-IV v1.0. This new software is freely available to download from https://t.co/GNBoWFjrRT (1/4)

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Harry Zekollari

Harry Zekollari

How much will glaciers and ice caps contribute to sea-level rise between 2015 and 2100? The first coordinated experiment in which 11 models of varying complexity have been used suggests up to 159±86 mm (RCP8.5): doi.org/10.1029/2019EF… @EarthsFutureEiC @AGU_Cryo a thread [1/11]

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Daniel Viviroli

Daniel Viviroli

@danielviviroli

4/6 Our research underscores that mountain areas deserve special protection and attention in efforts towards #sustainabledevelopment, and that close collaboration between lowland and mountain regions is required despite political, cultural, social and economic differences.

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Daniel Viviroli

Daniel Viviroli

@danielviviroli

3/6 Also by mid-century, well over half of the global lowland area equipped for #irrigation could be located in regions that depend heavily on mountain runoff and in addition overexploit local water resources.

3/6 Also by mid-century, well over half of the global lowland area equipped for #irrigation could be located in regions that depend heavily on mountain runoff and in addition overexploit local water resources.

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Daniel Viviroli

Daniel Viviroli

@danielviviroli

1/6 #Mountains are #watertowers of the world. Our new study in @naturesustainab quantifies how strongly populations and irrigated agriculture in the #lowlands depend on mountain runoff – in maps and timelines from the 1960s to 2040s. nature.com/articles/s4189…

1/6 #Mountains are #watertowers of the world. Our new study in @naturesustainab quantifies how strongly populations and irrigated agriculture in the #lowlands depend on mountain runoff – in maps and timelines from the 1960s to 2040s. https://t.co/jqX7bCGv8M

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Simon Gascoin

Water flowing out the floodgates of the #ThreeGorgesDam can be monitored from space
#Sentinel1 image on July 18 vs. aerial picture on July 17 (source latimes.com/world-nation/s… )

Water flowing out the floodgates of the #ThreeGorgesDam can be monitored from space
#Sentinel1 image on July 18 vs. aerial picture on July 17 (source https://t.co/qthDUzn2SB )

Retweeted by immerzeel

Evan Miles

Impressive new work by @EdinGlaciology scientists. The next level for high-frequency (monthly!) geodetic #glacier mass budgets, at regional scales. On the reading list. twitter.com/EGU_TC/status/…

Retweeted by immerzeel

Ashok Mishra

@AshokMi98488926

earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ima…

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Assaad Razzouk

In news not making headlines this week:

"Flooding in Assam and Nepal kills hundreds, displaces millions"
"One-third of Bangladesh under water in one of worst deluges to hit region"
"Worst flooding in decades endangers China’s Three Gorges Dam, 40m people affected"

#climate

In news not making headlines this week:

"Flooding in Assam and Nepal kills hundreds, displaces millions"
"One-third of Bangladesh under water in one of worst deluges to hit region"
"Worst flooding in decades endangers China’s Three Gorges Dam, 40m people affected"

#climate

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Chris Marsh

Our new paper led by Vincent Vionnet is now up for discussion in The Cryosphere "Multi-scale snowdrift-permitting modelling of mountain snowpack " /cc @brianmenounos @sgascoin @nicwayone
tc.copernicus.org/preprints/t…

Our new paper led by Vincent Vionnet is now up for discussion in The Cryosphere "Multi-scale snowdrift-permitting modelling of mountain snowpack " /cc @brianmenounos @sgascoin @nicwayone
https://t.co/BtaagltbAO

Retweeted by immerzeel

AGU's Eos

How much do melting glaciers contribute to today’s rising sea levels?

Investigation by @cozyfujita @matthias_huss @immerzeel @philipkraai @FabClimate @HarryZeko. Written by @KateWheeling

eos.org/research-spotl…

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Bert Wouters

First job opening for our HiRISE project now online! Interested in a fully-funded PhD project on polar remote sensing as part of a young, multidisciplinary team, incl @AimeeSlangen, @StefLhermitte and @DewiLeBars ? Look no further! uu.nl/en/organisatio…

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Matt Perks

Interested in monitoring river flows using videos? If so, check out KLT-IV v1.0. This new software is freely available to download from sourceforge.net/projects/klt-… (1/4)

Interested in monitoring river flows using videos? If so, check out KLT-IV v1.0. This new software is freely available to download from https://t.co/GNBoWFjrRT (1/4)

Retweeted by immerzeel

Harry Zekollari

Harry Zekollari

How much will glaciers and ice caps contribute to sea-level rise between 2015 and 2100? The first coordinated experiment in which 11 models of varying complexity have been used suggests up to 159±86 mm (RCP8.5): doi.org/10.1029/2019EF… @EarthsFutureEiC @AGU_Cryo a thread [1/11]

Retweeted by immerzeel

Daniel Viviroli

Daniel Viviroli

@danielviviroli

4/6 Our research underscores that mountain areas deserve special protection and attention in efforts towards #sustainabledevelopment, and that close collaboration between lowland and mountain regions is required despite political, cultural, social and economic differences.

Retweeted by immerzeel

Daniel Viviroli

Daniel Viviroli

@danielviviroli

3/6 Also by mid-century, well over half of the global lowland area equipped for #irrigation could be located in regions that depend heavily on mountain runoff and in addition overexploit local water resources.

3/6 Also by mid-century, well over half of the global lowland area equipped for #irrigation could be located in regions that depend heavily on mountain runoff and in addition overexploit local water resources.

Retweeted by immerzeel

Daniel Viviroli

Daniel Viviroli

@danielviviroli

1/6 #Mountains are #watertowers of the world. Our new study in @naturesustainab quantifies how strongly populations and irrigated agriculture in the #lowlands depend on mountain runoff – in maps and timelines from the 1960s to 2040s. nature.com/articles/s4189…

1/6 #Mountains are #watertowers of the world. Our new study in @naturesustainab quantifies how strongly populations and irrigated agriculture in the #lowlands depend on mountain runoff – in maps and timelines from the 1960s to 2040s. https://t.co/jqX7bCGv8M

Retweeted by immerzeel

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