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Umesh K. Haritashya

Umesh K. Haritashya

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Earth Science

D-Index
37
Citations
7815
World Ranking
6704
National Ranking
2354

Best Publications

  • Importance and vulnerability of the world's water towers

    W W Immerzeel;A F Lutz;M Andrade;M Andrade;A Bahl

  • A massive rock and ice avalanche caused the 2021 disaster at Chamoli, Indian Himalaya

    D. H. Shugar;M. Jacquemart;M. Jacquemart;M. Jacquemart;D. Shean;S. Bhushan

  • Geomorphic and geologic controls of geohazards induced by Nepal’s 2015 Gorkha earthquake

    J. S. Kargel;G. J. Leonard;D. H. Shugar;U. K. Haritashya

  • Rapid worldwide growth of glacial lakes since 1990

    Dan H. Shugar;Dan H. Shugar;Aaron Burr;Umesh K. Haritashya;Jeffrey S. Kargel

  • Climate Change and the Global Pattern of Moraine-Dammed Glacial Lake Outburst Floods

    Stephan Harrison;Jeffrey S. Kargel;Christian Huggel;John M. Reynolds

  • Glaciohydrology of the Himalaya-Karakoram.

    Mohd. Farooq Azam;Jeffrey S. Kargel;Joseph M. Shea;Santosh Nepal

  • Annual 30-meter Dataset for Glacial Lakes in High Mountain Asia from 2008 to 2017

    Fang Chen;Meimei Zhang;Huadong Guo;Simon Allen;Simon Allen

  • Mapping dry/wet snow cover in the Indian Himalayas using IRS multispectral imagery

    R. P. Gupta;Umesh K. Haritashya;Pratap Singh

  • Randolph Glacier Inventory [v3.2]: A Dataset of Global Glacier Outlines. Global Land Ice Measurements from Space

    Arendt;T. Bolch;J.G. Cogley

  • Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers

    Vijay P. Singh;Pratap Singh;Umesh K. Haritashya

  • Hydrological characteristics of the Gangotri Glacier, central Himalayas, India

    Pratap Singh;Umesh K. Haritashya;Naresh Kumar;Yatveer Singh

  • Evolution and Controls of Large Glacial Lakes in the Nepal Himalaya

    Umesh K. Haritashya;Jeffrey S. Kargel;Dan H. Shugar;Gregory J. Leonard

  • Suspended Sediment from the Gangotri Glacier: Quantification, Variability and Associations with Discharge and Air Temperature

    Umesh K. Haritashya;Pratap Singh;Naresh Kumar;R.P. Gupta

  • Modelling and estimation of different components of streamflow for Gangotri Glacier basin, Himalayas

    Pratap Singh;Umesh K. Haritashya;Naresh Kumar

  • The State of Remote Sensing Capabilities of Cascading Hazards over High Mountain Asia.

    Dalia Kirschbaum;C Scott Watson;David R Rounce;Dan Shugar

  • Modeling lake outburst and downstream hazard assessment of the Lower Barun Glacial Lake, Nepal Himalaya

    Ashim Sattar;Umesh K. Haritashya;Jeffrey S. Kargel;Gregory J. Leonard

  • Himalayan glaciers: The big picture is a montage

    Jeffrey S. Kargel;J. Graham Cogley;Gregory J. Leonard;Umesh K. Haritashya

  • Future Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) hazard of the South Lhonak Lake, Sikkim Himalaya

    Ashim Sattar;Ashim Sattar;Ajanta Goswami;Anil.V. Kulkarni;Adam Emmer

  • Diurnal variations in discharge and suspended sediment concentration, including runoff‐delaying characteristics, of the Gangotri Glacier in the Garhwal Himalayas

    Pratap Singh;Umesh K. Haritashya;K. S. Ramasastri;Naresh Kumar

  • Mass Loss From Calving in Himalayan Proglacial Lakes

    C. Scott Watson;C. Scott Watson;Jeffrey S. Kargel;Dan H. Shugar;Umesh K. Haritashya

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