Starting from the Gangotri glacier in the Himalayan mountains, the River Ganges runs for around 1569 miles, across India as well as Bangladesh, finally entering the Bay of Bengal. The Ganges River is considered extremely sacred or holy in the Indian religion of Hinduism. So much so, that pe...
The Brahmaputra has its starting point in Tibet and runs through Bangladesh, India and China. The river is 1,765 miles long with a drainage basin area of 651,000 square km while the average discharge of water is 19,300 m³/ second. The river plays a significant role in irrigation and ...
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In fact, starting from the second half of the 1970s, an industrial site was built in the area between the two branches. Consequently, a levee was built at the confluence between the two branches to convey the discharge only along the Molaro I. Thus, the Molaro II was barred and ...
Figure 4a,b illustrate the vegetation phenology, with the growing season for alpine wetlands starting around May and ending around October. Figure 4c,d indicate that thawing begins around April and freezing starts around September. The suprapermafrost groundwater level peaks from June to September (...
China has declared that it will be starting work on a major hydropower project on the Yarlung Zangbo River in the Tibet Autonomous Region near its border with India. A proposal has been put forward in its 14th Five-Year Plan, which, if implemented, will be bigger than the Three Gorges ...
First, the interpolation of water level observations along the river, using the water level slope. This water level slope can, for example, be estimated from the very same data, as done by Villadsen et al. [19] with CryoSat-2 data over the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers. They interpolated...