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Climate Change in the Himalayas

This book analyzes the issues associated with climate change in the Himalayas. The purpose of choosing the Himalayas as a focus is because it is a particularly fragile mountain system, highly sensitive to climate change impacts, and it contains one of the largest human populations affected by climat...

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Main Authors: Pant, G. B. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Pradeep Kumar, P. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Revadekar, Jayashree V. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Singh, Narendra. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:
Climate change.
Environmental geography.
Meteorology.
Hydrology.
Geoecology.
Environmental geology.
Climate Change.
Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.
Environmental Geography.
Hydrology/Water Resources.
Geoecology/Natural Processes.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61654-4
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Climate and Climate change: An Overview
  • 2. The Himalaya
  • 3. Weather Systems over Himalaya: Cloud and Precipitation Processes
  • 4. Climate models, Projections and Scenarios
  • 5. Climate Change: Central Himalayan Perspective
  • 6. Central Himalaya: Climate change Signatures
  • 7. Climate change impacts: Central Himalaya
  • 8. Climate change and Uttarakhand: Policy Perspective.

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