Researchers from the Cryosphere Initiative of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) leave for Langtang Valley and Yala Glacier this spring for routine maintenance of meteorological stations, data collection, and mass balance measurements in selected research areas. Langtang Valley is a core research area for ICIMOD.
READ MORECryosphere researchers from ICIMOD will join a team of scientists from institutes in Nepal and Europe for an extensive field campaign to Ngozumpa glacier in the Khumbu region of Nepal in the months of March and April 2016. The team will conduct geophysical surveys on the debris covered glacier making ground penetrating radar measurements of the ice and debris thicknesses.
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