The uplift of the Tibetan Plateau caused significant ecogeographical changes that had a major impact on the exchange and isolation of regional fauna and flora. Furthermore, Pleistocene glacial oscillations were linked to temporal large-scale landmass and drainage system reconfigurations near the Hengduan Mountain Region and might have facilitated speciation and promoted biodiversity in southwes...

Abstract. Several studies identified heterogeneous glacier mass changes in western High Mountain Asia over the last decades. Causes for these change patterns are still not fully understood. Modelling physical interactions between surface and atmosphere several decades can provide insight into relevant processes. Such model applications, however, have data needs which usually met data-scarce reg...

Rock glaciers are creeping bodies of ice and rock that account for an important part the mountain cryosphere. In this study, we investigated long-term changes Laurichard glacier (French Alps), to understand how is responding climate change. Using feature-tracking photogrammetric measurements between 1952 2019, quantified in thickness, flow velocities from which derived ice/rock flux at a decada...

In Alaska, lichenometry continues to be an important technique for dating late Holocene moraines. Research completed during the 1970s through the early 1990s developed lichen dating curves for five regions in the Arctic and subarctic mountain ranges beyond altitudinal and latitudinal treelines. Although these dating curves are still in use across Alaska, little progress has been made in the pas...

We used 5704 14C, 10Be, and 3He ages that span the interval from 10,000 to 50,000 years ago (10 to 50 ka) to constrain the timing of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) in terms of global ice-sheet and mountain-glacier extent. Growth of the ice sheets to their maximum positions occurred between 33.0 and 26.5 ka in response to climate forcing from decreases in northern summer insolation, tropical Pac...

Artificial glacier melt reduction is gaining increasing attention because of rapid retreats and the projected acceleration future mass losses. However, quantifying effect artificial on glaciers in China has not been currently reported. Therefore, case Urumqi Glacier No.1 (eastern Tien Shan, China) used to conduct a scientific evaluation cover efficiency for between 24 June 28 August 2021. By co...

Abstract Pakistan’s Karakoram region has a large variety of glacier types. Equilibrium line altitude (ELA) alpine or valley glaciers represents mass balance. Field observations for estimation ELA the majority Karakoram’s are not available due to rugged glacier-covered terrains and lack climatic data above 5000 masl. Therefore, we applied hypsometrically controlled accumulation area ratio (AAR) ...