I am pleased to share our new paper on ‘GLOF hazard, exposure, vulnerability and risk assessment of PDGLs in the Bhutan Himalaya’ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

#GRL: Glacier Surface Heatwaves Over the Tibetan Plateau agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20…

#GRL: Glacier Surface Heatwaves Over the Tibetan Plateau onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20…

Research reveals hidden ice melt in the greater Himalaya Nature Geoscience phys.org/news/2023-04-r…

Ice lost underwater as glacial lakes expand causes an additional 2.7 Gt or ~7% of the total mass loss in the greater Himalayas! Why and how does it vary? Check out our new Nature Geoscience study rdcu.be/c83tT led by Guoqing Zhang 🧵...

What's this mean? The glaciers are losing mass more rapidly than previously expected! These new mass change estimates can improve calibration data for lake-terminating glaciers and highlights the need to account for lake-terminating glaciers in projections!

Himalayan glaciers are losing weight faster than thought nature.com/articles/d4158…

Turns out that we have been underestimating - by 6.5% - ice loss from Himalayan glaciers that terminate in lakes. And that's because of the 'invisible' subaqueous ice loss! What is it and why should we care? Keep reading 🧵⬇️ (🗺️Changes in Himalayan lake volume)

Revealing invisible Himalaya glacier loss esa.int/Applications/O…

How did they found out about this discrepancy? As Tobias Bolch from TU Graz puts it, satellites "cannot ‘see’ underwater". This had led to a gap in our understanding of the full extent of ice being lost from lake-terminating glaciers.” (Galong Co lake, captured by ARCHIVED - NASA Landsat)

Scientists combined satellite & bathymetry data to estimate the volume of water the lakes held. The most significant underestimation, of 10%, occurred in the central Himalaya, where glacial lake growth has been the most rapid. (📽️changes in the volume of Imja Tsho lake 1990-2020)

Check out nature's research highlight about our recent study showing how the inclusion of subaqueous (i.e., underwater) mass loss from expanding glacial lakes increases estimates of Himalayan glacier mass loss compared to existing estimates nature.com/articles/d4158…

Accounting for subaqueous melting from lake-terminating glaciers increases estimated glacier mass loss across the Himalaya by 7% over the past 20 years, according to a study in Nature Geoscience. 🔒 go.nature.com/3nU05tI

April issue out now: featuring articles on water on the Moon, an increase in ozone-depleting CFCs, mantle influence on Earth's magnetic field, Himalayan glacier mass loss, and more! nature.com/ngeo/volumes/1…

Cascading hazards from two recent glacial lake outburst floods in the Nyainqêntanglha range, Tibetan Plateau - ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

📌New Publication-GLOFs from Ranzeria Co in 2013 and Jiweng Co in 2020 in the Tibetan Plateau destroyed local infrastructure and vegetation, and eroded river banks. The study reveals the causes, mechanisms, and flow dynamics of both events. Guoqing Zhang

🚨New Review! Characteristics and changes of glacial lakes and outburst floods🧊🌊 This Review highlights that both glacial lakes & glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) will increase with ongoing deglaciation nature.com/articles/s4301… Free: rdcu.be/dIAyU Guoqing Zhang

Article: Widespread societal and ecological impacts from projected Tibetan Plateau lake expansion Guoqing Zhang @riwoolway @JidaWang83 nature.com/articles/s4156… pic.x.com/obUYIdU7ul

Guoqing Zhang @riwoolway @JidaWang83 Research Briefing summarising this paper: nature.com/articles/s4156…

Check out our June issue! Check out studies on intertidal turbidity, phytoplankton nutrient feedbacks, Arctic amplification, sinking seaweed, Archean hydrology and more! nature.com/ngeo/volumes/1…