Climate Change in Himalaya

In this post, let's continue to look at the existing and emerging methods to model the stage of a GLOF,  the reason why the advanced models are so far rarely seen in glacial hazard literature , and what are the main challenge for the modellers and research groups to achieve their expected goal of hazard assessment and prediction. Picture: Rumbak Valley in the catchment of Hemis National Park of  Himalayas, Rumbak is one of the numerous villages in the  Ladakh  Range   region of north-west India.  Credit:  Zhu Jing (writer), travelling in 2014 Review of available methods  Westoby et al., 2014  very well summarises and presents a number of approaches to model different stage or episode of a GLOF, which can be categorised as A Trigger Mechanism  A Dam Breach  An outburst downstream passage The simulation of a dam breach initiation and development largely rely on the empirical or analytical formulation ...

Hello Everyone, Welcome to my blog about Climate Change in the Himalayas. I pinned down – Himalaya - the most spectacular and scared region in the world on the blog topic without a second thought when I got to know it would be my semester-long assignment for Global Environmental Change class as part of Master program of Climate Change in UCL. I picked up Himalayans not only because I have been fascinated by its breathtakingly beautiful landscape and incredible biodiversity, but also seeing that compared with the frequently reported and well-known glaciers retreating in the Arctic and Antarctic, the complete science report of climate change at the 3rd pole is meagre and inadequate. Although evidence suggested that Himalayan region is warming there are still scientific uncertainties and questions to be addressed and resolved to understand the complex cause, trend, implication and significance in depth. Therefore, I am intrigued to continue with my study in this blog to seek for scien...