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ANALYSIS OF SPATIO-TEMPORAL CHANGES IN SNOWCOVER IN BEAS RIVER BASIN USING REMOTE SENSING MODIS IMAGERIES

    1 Author(s):  PUKHA RAJ GOSWAMI

Vol -  6, Issue- 1 ,         Page(s) : 501 - 506  (2015 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH

Abstract

Snow and glacier melt together with monsoonal precipitation determines the headwater flow regimes of the Himalayan River systems of Indus, Ganga and Brahmaputra. Due to Global warming induced by unprecedented increase in anthropogenic activities in the 20th and 21st centuries Earth’s average temperature is rising and leading to climatic changes in different area. Although the impact of temperature rise is not same everywhere: for example, some areas are experiencing more rain/snow while some receiving less rain and some areas are witnessing fall in temperature. However it is being said that the likely impact could have very serious consequences for areas dependent on rivers originating from the snow and glacier fed mountainous environments of Himalayas and Hindu-Kush region.

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