NASA’s High Mountain Asia Team

Collaborative research to study cryospheric changes

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What we do

… and how we do it

Assessing and projecting changes in HMA’s water, ice, snow, hazards, and related phenomena to improve our understanding of regional changes, water resources, and induced impacts and vulnerabilities in human and biogeophysical systems.

Using open source science approaches to accelerate advances, foster transdisciplinary research and ensure FAIR (findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reproducibility) practices.

Meeting calendar

For a list of team members presenting at AGU 2022, please reference this Session Summary

Teams

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All Science Themes Cross-team Collaborations

Environmental Disturbance Index

Leveraging high-resolution products across the HMA region
Last updated on Sep 22, 2022

Glacier Mass Balance Sensitivity

Calibrating and evaluating glacier mass balance models
Last updated on Sep 22, 2022

Glacier Surface Velocities

Developing high-resolution glacier velocity products
Last updated on Sep 22, 2022

Historical Glacial Lake Outburst Floods

Characterizing the conditions leading up to GLOFs
Last updated on Sep 22, 2022

Model Validation and Data Assimilation

Optimizing and standardizing model evaluation and assimilation techniques
Last updated on Apr 6, 2021

Cryosphere

Changes in the High Mountain Asia Cryosphere in response to climate change
Last updated on Feb 25, 2021

Water Budget – Processes

Closing the water budget in High Mountain Asia
Last updated on Jan 19, 2021

Publications

Global glacier change in the 21st century: Every increase in temperature matters

Glacier mass loss affects sea level rise, water resources, and natural hazards. We present global glacier projections, excluding the …
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Water balance model (WBM) v.1.0.0: a scalable gridded global hydrologic model with water-tracking functionality

This paper describes the University of New Hampshire Water Balance Model, WBM, a process-based gridded global hydrologic model that …
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Distributional Validation of Precipitation Data Products with Spatially Varying Mixture Models

The high mountain regions of Asia contain more glacial ice than anywhere on the planet outside of the polar regions. Because of the …
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Effects of complex terrain on the shortwave radiative balance: A sub–grid scale parameterization for the GFDL Land Model version 4.2

Parameterizing incident solar radiation over complex topography regions in Earth System Models (ESMs) remains a challenging task. In …
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Landsat, MODIS, and VIIRS snow cover mapping algorithm performance as validated by airborne lidar datasets

Snow cover mapping algorithms utilizing multispectral satellite data at various spatial resolutions are available, each treating …
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