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• Recent glacier changes in the Kashmir Alpine Himalayas, India

  <p>Using Landsat data at decadal interval (1980-2013), the glacier fluctuations (glacier area, equilibrium line altitude and specific mass balance) of nine benchmark glaciers in Kashmir Himalaya was estimated.

  • 01/01/2016

  • Geocarto International
  • • Glaciers
    • Glacial Melt
    • Himalaya
    • India
    • Climate Change
    • Climate Impacts
    • Remote Sensing

• Geomorphological manifestations of the flood hazard: A remote sensing based approach

  Flood hazard is one of the most severe problems in the Himalayan river basins. Although floods are essentially hydrological phenomenon, the uneven distribution of floods in the river basin highlights the

  • 01/12/2003

  • Geocarto International
  • • Rivers
    • Floods
    • Nepal
    • India
    • South Asia
    • Bagmati
    • Himalaya
    • River Basin
    • Flood Control
    • Remote Sensing
    • Bihar
    • Indo-Gangetic Plains
    • Kosi
    • Gandak
    • Sheohar (D)
    • Hydrology