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 2023, please reference this Session Summary

Topics

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All Science Themes Cross-team Collaborations Science Highlights

MATCHA (Model for Atmospheric Transport and Chemistry in Asia)

A novel regional chemical reanalysis
Last updated on Jul 11, 2024

Mountain Permafrost Extent

Quantifying and characterizing uncertainty related to mountain permafrost extent.
Last updated on Mar 13, 2024

Terrestrial Water Cycle Changes

Insights on terrestrial water cycle changes over HMA in the past two decades (2002-2021)
Last updated on Jan 30, 2024

Environmental Disturbance Index

Leveraging high-resolution products across the HMA region
Last updated on Dec 20, 2023

Glacier Mass Balance Sensitivity

Calibrating and evaluating glacier mass balance models
Last updated on Dec 20, 2023

Glacier Surface Velocities

Developing high-resolution glacier velocity products
Last updated on Dec 20, 2023

Historical Glacial Lake Outburst Floods

Characterizing the conditions leading up to GLOFs
Last updated on Dec 20, 2023

Model Validation and Data Assimilation

Optimizing and standardizing model evaluation and assimilation techniques
Last updated on Dec 20, 2023

Cryosphere

Changes in the High Mountain Asia Cryosphere in response to climate change
Last updated on Dec 20, 2023

Water Budget – Processes

Closing the water budget in High Mountain Asia
Last updated on Dec 20, 2023

Publications

Influence of SMAP soil moisture retrieval assimilation on runoff estimation across South Asia

This study was designed to characterize and quantify the influence of surface soil moisture assimilation on estimated runoff (surface …
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Augmenting daily MODIS LST with AIRS surface temperature retrievals to estimate ground temperature and permafrost extent in High Mountain Asia

Permafrost in High Mountain Asia (HMA) is becoming increasingly vulnerable to thaw due to climate change. However, the lack of either …
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Mapping proglacial headwater streams in High Mountain Asia using PlanetScope imagery

Headwater streams transport nutrients, sediment, and mineral-rich groundwater downstream. In High Mountain Asia (HMA), headwater …
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An assessment of gridded precipitation products over High Mountain Asia

Study region High Mountain Asia Study focus The study assesses five high-resolution gridded precipitation products against observations …
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On the challenges of simulating streamflow in glacierized catchments of the Himalayas using satellite and reanalysis forcing data

Abstract Hydrologic assessment of climate change impacts on complex terrains and data-sparse regions like High Mountain Asia is a major …
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