Impacts of climate change on lake fluctuations in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya-Tibetan Plateau

• Main Authors: Yang, Xiankun, Lu, Xixi, Park, Edward, Tarolli, Paolo
• Other Authors: Earth Observatory of Singapore
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Lake Fluctuation; Remote Sensing; DRNTU::Engineering::Environmental engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/106757; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48970
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Lakes in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya-Tibetan (HKHT) regions are crucial indicators for the combined impacts of regional climate change and resultant glacier retreat. However, they lack long-term systematic monitoring and thus their responses to recent climatic change still remain only partially understo...