Glaciers of the Himalayas : Climate Change, Black Carbon, and Regional Resilience

Melting glaciers and the loss of seasonal snow pose significant risks to the stability of water resources in South Asia. The 55,000 glaciers in the Himalaya, Karakoram, and Hindu Kush (HKHK) mountain ranges store more freshwater than any region outside of the North and South Poles. Their ice rese...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mani, Muthukumara
Format:	Book
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2021
Subjects:	GLACIER CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT SNOW MELT BLACK CARBON WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT GANGES BASIN GLACIER MELT RIVER BASIN DEVELOPMENT BRAHMAPUTRA BASIN
Online Access:	https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/976841622778070962/glaciers-of-the-himalayas-climate-change-black-carbon-and-regional-resilience http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35600

id	okr-10986-35600
recordtype	oai_dc
spelling	okr-10986-356002021-07-30T08:37:37Z Glaciers of the Himalayas : Climate Change, Black Carbon, and Regional Resilience Mani, Muthukumara Mani, Muthukumara GLACIER CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT SNOW MELT BLACK CARBON WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT GANGES BASIN GLACIER MELT RIVER BASIN DEVELOPMENT BRAHMAPUTRA BASIN Melting glaciers and the loss of seasonal snow pose significant risks to the stability of water resources in South Asia. The 55,000 glaciers in the Himalaya, Karakoram, and Hindu Kush (HKHK) mountain ranges store more freshwater than any region outside of the North and South Poles. Their ice reserves feed into three major river basins in South Asia—the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra—that are home to 750 million people. One major regional driver of the accelerating glacier melt is climate change, which is altering the patterns of temperature and precipitation. A second driver may be deposits of anthropogenic black carbon (BC), which increase the glaciers’ absorption of solar radiation and raise air temperatures. BC is generated by human activity both inside and outside of South Asia, and it may be meaningfully reduced by policy actions taken by the South Asian countries themselves. Glaciers of the Himalayas: Climate Change, Black Carbon, and Regional Resilience investigates the extent to which the BC reduction policies of South Asian countries may affect glacier formation and melt within the context of a changing global climate. It assesses the relative impact of each source of black carbon on snow and glacier dynamics. The authors simulate how BC emissions interact with projected climate scenarios, estimate the extent to which these glacial processes affect water resources in downstream areas of these river basins, and present scenarios until 2040. 2021-05-19T15:28:36Z 2021-05-19T15:28:36Z 2021-06-03 Book https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/976841622778070962/glaciers-of-the-himalayas-climate-change-black-carbon-and-regional-resilience 978-1-4648-0099-3 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35600 South Asia Development Forum; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank South Asia South Asia Bangladesh India Pakistan
repository_type	Digital Repository
institution_category	Foreign Institution
institution	Digital Repositories
building	World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
collection	World Bank
topic	GLACIER CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT SNOW MELT BLACK CARBON WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT GANGES BASIN GLACIER MELT RIVER BASIN DEVELOPMENT BRAHMAPUTRA BASIN
spellingShingle	GLACIER CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT SNOW MELT BLACK CARBON WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT GANGES BASIN GLACIER MELT RIVER BASIN DEVELOPMENT BRAHMAPUTRA BASIN Mani, Muthukumara Glaciers of the Himalayas : Climate Change, Black Carbon, and Regional Resilience
geographic_facet	South Asia South Asia Bangladesh India Pakistan
relation	South Asia Development Forum;
description	Melting glaciers and the loss of seasonal snow pose significant risks to the stability of water resources in South Asia. The 55,000 glaciers in the Himalaya, Karakoram, and Hindu Kush (HKHK) mountain ranges store more freshwater than any region outside of the North and South Poles. Their ice reserves feed into three major river basins in South Asia—the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra—that are home to 750 million people. One major regional driver of the accelerating glacier melt is climate change, which is altering the patterns of temperature and precipitation. A second driver may be deposits of anthropogenic black carbon (BC), which increase the glaciers’ absorption of solar radiation and raise air temperatures. BC is generated by human activity both inside and outside of South Asia, and it may be meaningfully reduced by policy actions taken by the South Asian countries themselves. Glaciers of the Himalayas: Climate Change, Black Carbon, and Regional Resilience investigates the extent to which the BC reduction policies of South Asian countries may affect glacier formation and melt within the context of a changing global climate. It assesses the relative impact of each source of black carbon on snow and glacier dynamics. The authors simulate how BC emissions interact with projected climate scenarios, estimate the extent to which these glacial processes affect water resources in downstream areas of these river basins, and present scenarios until 2040.
author2	Mani, Muthukumara
author_facet	Mani, Muthukumara Mani, Muthukumara
format	Book
author	Mani, Muthukumara
author_sort	Mani, Muthukumara
title	Glaciers of the Himalayas : Climate Change, Black Carbon, and Regional Resilience
title_short	Glaciers of the Himalayas : Climate Change, Black Carbon, and Regional Resilience
title_full	Glaciers of the Himalayas : Climate Change, Black Carbon, and Regional Resilience
title_fullStr	Glaciers of the Himalayas : Climate Change, Black Carbon, and Regional Resilience
title_full_unstemmed	Glaciers of the Himalayas : Climate Change, Black Carbon, and Regional Resilience
title_sort	glaciers of the himalayas : climate change, black carbon, and regional resilience
publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
publishDate	2021
url	https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/976841622778070962/glaciers-of-the-himalayas-climate-change-black-carbon-and-regional-resilience http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35600
_version_	1764483320521949184

Glaciers of the Himalayas : Climate Change, Black Carbon, and Regional Resilience

Similar Items