There are altogether eight colours and the map is a most effective piece of work. Heights are given in feet and the names employed are those decided on by the Karakoram Conference of 1937 and approved by the Surveyor-General of India. . 1940 Nature Publishing Group...
Shispare Glacier covers 53.7 km2 at an elevation range of 2567–7611 m a.s.l. The Hasanabad Glacier is noted, historically (1892–3), for claims that it had the longest and fastest terminus advance (9.3 km) of any known Karakoram glacier17,29,36,37. During 1903, it had another ...
Glacier basins have exceptional steepness and vertical range of rock walls, wind redistribution of snow and avalanche-nourished ice5,60. Unlike the rest of the Himalaya, or Hindu Kush and westwards, the Mustagh Karakoram has large and nearly equal inputs of snow in winter and summer, likely ...
Under a range of climate change scenarios, the run-off of glacier meltwater in the Himalaya and Karakoram is likely to peak in the next few decades. After glacial run-off peaks, run-off will decline as the glaciers in both mountain ranges shrink, although the magnitude and timing of the ...
The main map shows the mean elevation of glacial lakes (m asl) in 2020 at the sub-basin level. The sub-plots show the number of glacial lakes (on the left) and the area of glacial lakes (on the right) in the sub-basins (n: >100). The red/blue colors show the number/area for...
There are many transboundary species, such as snow leopards (Forrest et al., 2012) and argali (Singh et al., 2010), that have a wide range of activities and are susceptible to human disturbance. The KH region comprises seven countries: China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, ...
7. To create two-dimensional complex image maps of the surface with dimensions ranging from slant range to line of sight (LOS) range, SAR systems, which are active, use microwave lights and save the electromagnetic echoes reflected from the surface. The displacement time series and displacement ...
The green dots indicate ICESat footprints with different elevation range. The black thick line is the glacier outline of Batura that we used in this study, modified from the newest Glacier Inventory of Pakistan. The pink line is from Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI) 6.0. The upper right map ...
Shispare (36.40°N 74.61°E) and Muchuhar (36.43°N 74.50°E) glaciers, former tributaries of the once larger Hasanabad Glacier, are situated in Hunza Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Shispare Glacier covers 53.7 km2at an elevation range of 2567–7611 m a.s.l. The Hasanabad Glacier is...
Karakoram Range, great mountain system extending some 300 miles (500 km) from the easternmost extension of Afghanistan in a southeasterly direction along the watershed between Central and South Asia. The average elevation of its mountains is about 20,000