Glacier mass budget and climate reanalysis data indicate a climatic shift around 2000 in Lahaul-Spiti, western Himalaya

• Published in: Climatic change Vol. 148; no. 1-2; pp. 219 - 233
• Main Authors: Mukherjee, Kriti, Bhattacharya, Atanu, Pieczonka, Tino, Ghosh, Susmita, Bolch, Tobias
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.05.2018; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Air temperature; Annual precipitation; Annual temperatures; Atmospheric Sciences; Climate; Climate change; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Climatic analysis; Climatic data; Debris; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Glacial drift; Glacial lakes; Glacial periods; Glaciers; Long-term changes; Mass; Mass budget; Mean annual precipitation; Precipitation; Remote sensing; Temperature effects; Temperature rise; Winter; Winter precipitation; India; Climatic trend; Geodetic mass balance; Climate reanalysis data; Lahaul-Spiti, Indian Himalaya; US spy satellite image; Glacier changes

While glacier mass changes in the Himalaya since the year 2000 are relatively well investigated, there is still a lack of knowledge about the long-term changes and their climatic drivers. We use historical and recent remote sensing data to study glacier changes of the Lahaul-Spiti region in western...