书目名称 | Glaciers of the Karakoram Himalaya |
副标题 | Glacial Environments |
编辑 | Kenneth Hewitt |
视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/386/385819/385819.mp4 |
概述 | A comprehensive overview on the glaciers in relation to water supply, hazards and sustainable uses.The text is based on state-of-the-art glaciological and related studies.Presents author’s own investi |
丛书名称 | Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research |
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描述 | .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 Indus and Yarkand Rivers, depend on melt waters from snow and ice. They are at risk from climate-change impacts on glaciers and water supply, and from hazards such as glacial lake outburst floods. .Useful research initiatives go back to the nineteenth century, but coverage has generally been limited geographically and has not been continuous over time. It is almost 80 years since a monograph was devoted to the Karakoram glaciers. The book presents a comprehensive overview, including statistics for the ice cover, glacier mass balance and dynamics, glacierized landscapes, rock glaciers, water resources and environmental hazards. Published glaciological and related research is surveyed along with expedition reports and archival materials in several languages. The expanding potential of satellite coverage is exploited, but conditions and processes reported from field investigations are the main |
出版日期 | Book 2014 |
关键词 | GLOFs; Inner Asia; Karakoram Himalaya; Mountain glaciers; Water resources; anthropology of glaciers; melti |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6311-1 |
isbn_softcover | 978-94-024-0506-4 |
isbn_ebook | 978-94-007-6311-1Series ISSN 1879-7180 Series E-ISSN 1879-7199 |
issn_series | 1879-7180 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 |