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  • The worldwide distribution and water supply of water towers (snowy or glacierized mountain ranges) is indexed, showing that the most important water towers are also the most vulnerable to socio-economic and climate-change stresses, with huge potential negative impacts on populations downstream.

    • W. W. Immerzeel
    • A. F. Lutz
    • J. E. M. Baillie
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 577, P: 364-369

  • Greater Himalayan glaciers are retreating and losing mass. A combination of the latest ensemble of climate models combined with a glacio-hydrological model suggests that in two contrasting watersheds in the Greater Himalaya, glaciers will recede but net glacier melt runoff is on a rising limb until at least 2050.

    • W. W. Immerzeel
    • F. Pellicciotti
    • M. F. P. Bierkens
    Research
    Nature Geoscience
    Volume: 6, P: 742-745

  • High-mountain Asia streamflow is strongly impacted by snow and glacier melt. A regional model, combined with observations and climate projections, shows snowmelt decreased during 1979–2019 and was more dominant than glacier melt, and projections suggest declines that vary by river basin.

    • Philip D. A. Kraaijenbrink
    • Emmy E. Stigter
    • Walter W. Immerzeel
    Research
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 11, P: 591-597

  • The impact of climate change on the water resources and hydrology of High Asia is uncertain. This work uses a cryospheric hydrological model to quantify the hydrology of five major rivers in the region and project future water availability. Runoff is expected to increase until at least 2050 due to an increase in precipitation in the upper catchment of four rivers and increased melt entering the fifth river.

    • A. F. Lutz
    • W. W. Immerzeel
    • M. F. P. Bierkens
    Research
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 4, P: 587-592

  • South Asian agriculture depends on water from rains, meltwater and groundwater, but climate change impacts the timing of these water sources’ availability. Projections indicate that meltwater and groundwater will become more important and will need to offset reduced rainfall during drier years.

    • A. F. Lutz
    • W. W. Immerzeel
    • H. Biemans
    Research
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 12, P: 566-573

  • Climate change will affect Himalayan water resources. This study quantifies the importance of snow and glacier melt for agriculture on the Indo-Gangetic plain, finding that 129 million farmers depend on it, especially for rice and cotton, and that meltwater supports crops feeding 38 million people.

    • H. Biemans
    • C. Siderius
    • W. W. Immerzeel
    Research
    Nature Sustainability
    Volume: 2, P: 594-601

  • Multiple factors determine how much water is and will be available in the river basins of Asia. To expose hotspots and help adaptation, these factors must be assessed together at the basin level.

    • W. W. Immerzeel
    • M. F. P. Bierkens
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Geoscience
    Volume: 5, P: 841-842

  • Remote sensing observations of mountain snow depth are still lacking for the Northern Hemisphere mountains. Here authors use Sentinel-1 satellite radar measurements to assess the snow depth in mountainous areas at 1 km² resolution and show that the Sentinel-1 retrievals capture the spatial variability between and within mountain ranges, as well as their inter-annual differences.

    • Hans Lievens
    • Matthias Demuzere
    • Gabrielle J. M. De Lannoy
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 10, P: 1-12

  • Models show that even if global temperature rise can be limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius, only about 65 per cent of glacier mass will remain in the high mountains of Asia by the end of this century, and if temperatures rise by more than this the effects will be much more extreme.

    • P. D. A. Kraaijenbrink
    • M. F. P. Bierkens
    • W. W. Immerzeel
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 549, P: 257-260

  • Glaciers in the Karakoram region, with their balanced or slightly positive mass balance, stand out from global glacier shrinkage, but this anomaly is not expected to persist in the long term, according to an overview of the possible explanations.

    • Daniel Farinotti
    • Walter W. Immerzeel
    • Amaury Dehecq
    Reviews
    Nature Geoscience
    Volume: 13, P: 8-16