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Closing the Himalayan Water Cycle

To elucidate and quantify the timing and magnitude of poorly understood components of the Himalayan water cycle: precipitation, glacier dynamics and snow processes  

Glacio-hydrology of the Bhagirathi Basin

Modelling streamflow and investigating the glacio-hydrological components of in the Bhagirathi sub-basin.  

High mountain mass movements

Understanding the impact of changing cryosphere on debris flows and mass movements in high mountain environments  

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  

James Kirkham

Beginning to process some of the highlights from my recent expedition to the Bellingshausen Sea.

#Antarctic clouds are spectacular.

Here, a Kelvin–Helmholtz instability forms over the ice sheet at sunset.

#Nature is #beautiful

Beginning to process some of the highlights from my recent expedition to the Bellingshausen Sea. 

#Antarctic clouds are spectacular.

Here, a Kelvin–Helmholtz instability forms over the ice sheet at sunset. 

#Nature is #beautiful