Several water level recorders have been set up by NCPOR along the Chandra river and Chandra Tal, the source of the river. A view of the lake situated in the Spiti part of the Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh.
Abstract: Himalayan glaciers influence the water regimes of major river systems in Asia and help sustain more than a billion people from several countries. Changing climate is threatening the health of Himalayan glaciers and potentially increasing hazards like glacier lake outburst flood, avalanches and landslides.
The authors are senior scientists at the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, Goa. meloth@ncaor.gov.in. The article should be cited as Meloth T and P Sharma, 2019. Third pole on a thin ice, Geography and You, 19 (16): 34-39
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