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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1. Verfasser: Pant, G. B. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2018.
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ISBN:9783319616544
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.