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The International Symposium on the Cryosphere in a Changing Climate was held in Wellington, New Zealand, from 12 to 17 February 2017. The symposium brought together renowned glaciologists from around the world to discuss and share research findings

Study tour to NVE Glacier Monitoring Sites in Norway

The performance of glaciohydrological models which simulate catchment response to climate variability depends to a large degree on the data used to force the models.

The total glacier area in the greater Himalayan region is subject to large uncertainties and problems of geographic delineation. According to the recent inventory of glacier prepared by ICIMOD there are 18,495 glaciers...

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A special thematic issue of the Annals of Glaciology has recently been published by Cambridge University Press. The thirty-eight open access papers, written by research teams from around the globe, cover different aspects of glaciological research

The comprehensive baseline information on the glaciers of the entire HKH region have been organised by major basins and sub-basins

On 8 April 2016, four students in their final year of MS Research in Glaciology shared their thesis progress with cryosphere experts from ICIMOD. The students are enrolled in the MS Research in Glaciology program at Kathmandu University, which is

ICIMOD Glacier Database Working Group meeting at ICIMOD

Glacier Mass Balance Training Course

Glacier Mass Balance set-up in the Yala Glacier in Langtang Valley in Nepal and Glacier Mass Balance Field Training

Workshop on ICIMOD Glacier Database Working Group meeting

To catch the highest discharge of Langtang Khola and Lirung outlet, a team of glacio-hydrologists from the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and Kathmandu University conducted a field expedition to Langtang valley

Workshop on Glacier Hydrological Monitoring and Assessments

National Training Course on

He pulled the string of the generator one more time, It did not move an inch. Not only was the machine stuck, so were we. Fieldwork is not like in the old days any more where a tape measure and notebook were enough. Now we bring drones (unmanned

Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere – Snow and Glaciers