Glaciers of the Karakoram Himalaya Glacial Environments, Processes, Hazards and Resources /

• Main Author: Hewitt, Kenneth (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research,
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Climate change.; Atmospheric sciences.; Physical geography.; Earth Sciences.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.; Physical Geography.

The Karakoram contains the greatest concentration of glaciers and most of the largest ice masses outside high latitudes. They comprise major stores and sources of fresh water in an otherwise extreme, continental, dry region. As many as 200 million people living downstream, in the valleys of the Indu...

Table of Contents:

• The Regional Context
• Snow, Ice and Verticality in the Karakoram
• Karakoram Glaciers: Types and Terrain
• Glacier Mass Balance I: Snowfall and Glacier Nourishment
• Glacier Mass Balance II: Ablation
• Mass Balance Regimes
• Dynamics of Snow and Ice in Glacier Basins
• Landforms of the Karakoram and Glacierized Areas
• Surge-Type Glaciers
• Glacial Impoundments and Outburst Floods
• Rock Glaciers and Related Phenomena
• Glaciers and Climate Change
• Glaciers in Human Life.