[1] The hydrological budget of Himalayan rivers is dominated by monsoonal rainfall and snowmelt, but their relative impact is not well established because this remote region lacks a dense gauge network. Here, we use a combination of validated remotely‐sensed climate parameters to characterize the spatiotemporal distribution of rainfall, snowfall, and evapotranspiration in order to quantify thei...

This paper qualifies the effect of different convection schemes and center-domains on the simulation of winter precipitation over Iran using RegCM3 numerical climate model. It is compressible, finite difference with hydrostatic equilibrium in sigma coordinate with a semi-implicit algorithm for reduction of horizontal diffusion. Iran experienced two dry and wet periods during winters of 1997 and...

The pattern of fluvial incision across the Himalayas of central Nepal is estimated from the distribution of Holocene and Pleistocene terraces and from the geometry of modem channels along major rivers draining across the range. The terraces provide good constraints on incision rates across the Himalayan frontal folds (Sub-Himalaya or Siwaliks Hills) where rivers are forced to cut down into risi...

[1] New apatite and zircon fission track and (U-Th)/He analyses serve to document the bedrock cooling history of the central Nepalese Himalaya near the Annapurna Range. We have obtained 82 apatite fission track (AFT), 7 zircon fission track (ZFT), and 7 apatite (U-Th)/He (AHe) ages from samples collected along the Marsyandi drainage, including eight vertical relief profiles from ridges on eithe...

The geochemistry of granite is largely controlled by physical and chemical parameters that are closely linked to tectonic processes in evolving orogenic belts. Therefore, temporal changes the geochemical compositions granites could be used infer critical shifts processes. Himalayan leucogranites crustal anatexis products, providing a case formulate petrogenetic models for test models. From west...

We present a new high-resolution image of the crust beneath western Himalaya-Asia convergence zone encompassing geographical domain Himalaya-western Tibet-Ladakh-Karakoram-Pamir-Hindu Kush, using ambient noise cross-correlations from 530 seismological stations along with surface wave observations 1,261 earthquakes recorded over network. The 3-D shear velocity is created 22,726 inter-station Ray...