The glacier snowline altitude (SLA) at the end of melt season is an indicator equilibrium line and can be used to estimate mass balance reconstruct past climate. This study analyzes spatiotemporal variability in SLA across High Mountain Asia, including Altai Mountains, Karakoram Western Himalayas, Gongga Tian Shan, Nyainqentanglha over 30 years (1989–2019) better elucidate state these mountain ...

Towards the end of April last, I was consulted by letter on the case of Mr. C., a tea planter, resident close to the Darjeeling Terai, at an elevation of about 1,600 feet. His occupation compelled him to pass all but his sleeping hours in the Terai itself; yet for three years he had enjoyed excellent health. He is about 25 years of age, and never before had any serious illness. He complained of...

[1] Ice core measurements in conjunction with climate model simulations are of tremendous value when examining anthropogenic and natural aerosol loads and their role in past and future climates. Refractory black carbon (BC) records from the Arctic, the Antarctic, and the Himalayas are analyzed using three transient climate simulations performed with the Goddard Institute for Space Studies Model...

A radio telescope consisting of a receiver and a dual dipole antenna has been installed at high altitude station Darjeeling to detect solar and Jovian emissions at 20.1 MHz for receiving radio signal from both the Sun and the Jupiter. Signals received during September 2012 are analyzed to compare the Jovian bursts observed in predicted emission phases for the satellite Io of the Jupiter and the...

In the recent several decades, glacial lakes have been expanding at the terminus of debris-covered glaciers associated with glacier shrinkage in the Himalayas. Accordingly, glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) have become serious natural disasters in the Himalayas. Bathymetrical surveys have been carried out at several glacial lakes, and the relationship between the lake area and water volume h...

The visit of two Tibetan physicians provided a unique opportunity to gain insight into a practice of medicine very different from that of Western civilization. Initial discussions indicated that the practice of medicine and mysticism were inextricably interwoven in the Tibetan culture. Accordingly, the focus of the study was directed to goiter, which is both common in the Himalayas and easy to ...

This document aim to develop and publish the glacial lake inventory in the Bhutan Himalayas using optical instruments onboard the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS, nicknamed “Daichi”), which was launched on January 24, 2006. The Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) is exposing to a risk for peoples living in downstream regions. The glacial lake inventory is newly developing using ALOS data...

We present a hypothesis for the phylogeny and phylogeography of a group of bush warblers in the genus Cettia, based on parts of the mitochondrial Cytochrome b gene and the nuclear myoglobin intron II (in all approximately 1.7 kb). Ancestral areas were reconstructed by dispersal-vicariance analysis and constrained Bayesian inference. The results suggest that the insular taxa in the Cettia vulcan...