{"id":651,"date":"2025-04-14T13:18:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T11:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/alpenv\/?p=651"},"modified":"2025-04-14T13:18:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T11:18:25","slug":"new-paper-published-glacier-influenced-hydrologiucal-regimes-in-the-afghanistan-hindu-kush-himalaya-under-current-and-future-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/alpenv\/2025\/04\/new-paper-published-glacier-influenced-hydrologiucal-regimes-in-the-afghanistan-hindu-kush-himalaya-under-current-and-future-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"New Paper Published : Glacier-influenced hydrologiucal regimes in the Afghanistan Hindu Kush Himalaya under current and future climate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Glaciers in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) are important freshwater resources. Glacier recession may lead to a significant decrease in summer runoff. This study focuses on Afghanistan in the western Himalayas with an arid to semi-arid climate, where, despite strong societal and ecosystem dependance upon mountain water resources, the contribution of glacier melt is poorly known. This study used a new conceptual precipitation and ice melt-runoff model to assess current and future streamflow, taking into account the effects of debris-covered ice. Three catchments with varying glacier cover are considered: Sust (4,609 km<sup>2<\/sup>, 15.6% glacier cover) in eastern Afghanistan; the Taqchakhana (264.4 km<sup>2<\/sup> area, 2.8% glacier cover) in northern Afghanistan; and the Bamyan (325.3 km<sup>2<\/sup>, 0.7% glacier cover) in central Afghanistan. Results identified different annual hydrological regimes, with glacier runoff dominating Sust (76%), rain and snow runoff dominating Taqchakhana (50%), and baseflow dominating Bamyan (61%). Under RCP 2.6, glacier runoff in Sust and Taqchakhana is expected to increase until 2050, then decline as temperatures stabilize; under RCP 8.5, a more significant increase is projected, while runoff in Bamyan will decrease throughout the century. Catchments may experience a peak water phase due to both temperature effects and progressively diminishing size of glaciers. A copy of the paper is freely available <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2166\/nh.2025.082\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glaciers in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) are important freshwater resources. Glacier recession may lead to a significant decrease in summer runoff. This study focuses on Afghanistan in the western Himalayas with an arid to semi-arid climate, where, despite strong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001734,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/alpenv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/alpenv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/alpenv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/alpenv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001734"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/alpenv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/alpenv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/alpenv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/alpenv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/alpenv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/alpenv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}