Spatial Distribution and Shrinkage of Glaciers since the 1990s in the Transboundary Kailash Sacred Landscape
Sudan Bikash Maharjan,
Tenzing Choyal Sherpa,
Finu Shrestha
et al.
Abstract:Glaciers are an inherent component of the landscape, culture, and environment in the high mountain areas of the Himalayas. Glacier distribution and its impacts are diverse in various landforms and landscape scales. Past studies on glaciers have focused on the individual, river basins, or at the country level, but none have been analyzed at the transboundary landscape level. This study investigates the spatial distribution of glaciers in the transboundary Kailash sacred landscape (KSL) at multiple time scales. … Show more
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