Recent Wetting and Glacier Expansion in the Northwest Himalaya and Karakoram.

ABSTRACT: Hydroclimatic variability driven by global warming in the climatically vulnerable cold semi-arid to arid northwest (NW) Himalaya is poorly constrained due to paucity of continuous weather records and annually resolved proxies. Applying a network of annually resolved tree-ring-width chronologies from semi-arid region of Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, we reconstructed April-May standardized precipitation index extending back to A.D. 1439 (576 years). The reconstructed series is featured by the most conspicuous long-term droughts during the 15^th to early 17^th centuries followed by a general wetting, with 1984-2014 being the wettest interval in the past 576 years. The data, consistent with other independently developed tree-ring-based hydrological records from cold s

SUBMITTER: Yadav RR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5522409 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature