Himalayan Weather and Climate and their Impact on the Environment

Part-I: Weather and Climate

Chapter -1:  Manifestations and contours of extreme high altitude climate change in the upper Karakoram Himalaya (Lead: Dr. M. R. Bhutiyani)

Chapter 2: Changes in the large-scale circulations over north-west India (Lead: Dr. Ramesh Yadav)

Chapter 3: Himalayan uplift and the Human evolution (Lead: Prof. T. Yasunari)

Chapter 4: Projected Climate Change in the Himalayas during the 21st Century (Lead: Prof. I. Rangwala)

Chapter 5: Dynamic Downscaling of Himalayan Climate (Lead: Dr. Sarat Kar)

Chapter 6: Representation of the Himalayas in Weather and Climate models (Lead: Prof. Someshwar Das)

Chapter 7: The Himalayan System: A Perspective (Lead: Prof. Shailesh Nayak)

Chapter 8: Changes in pan evaporation and causative parameters: A case study from eastern Himalayan region (Lead: Dr. Deepak Jhajaria)

Chapter 9: Land atmosphere interaction over the Himalayan region (Lead: Prof. Dev Niyogi)

Chapter 10: Impact of Nino phases on the summer monsoon ISO modes of northwestern and eastern Himalaya (Lead: Dr. Sandeepan Mukherjee)

Chapter 11: Remotely-sensed rain and snowfall in the Himalaya (Lead Prof. Bodo Bookhagen)

Part-II: Paleoclimate

Chapter 12: Multi-proxy records of climate variations for the Himalaya (Lead: Dr. Masaki Sano)

Chapter 13: Erosion in the Himalaya and its Coupling with Climate and Tectonics (Lead: Prof. Sunil Singh)

Chapter 14: Tracking back the climatic variability and role of Indian winter monsoon in the central and western Himalaya: using proxy data (Lead: Dr. J. Sanwal)

Chapter 15: Spatio-temporal variability of Stream flow in the Himalayan Region (Lead: Dr. Amalav Bhattacharya)

Chapter 16: Quaternary glaciation of the Himalaya (Lead: Prof. L. Owen)

Chapter 17: Geomorphological changes during Quaternary Period vis a vis role of climate and tectonics in Ladakh sector of Trans-Himalaya (Lead: Dr. Anupam Sharam)

Chapter 18: Climate and Source Identification of Organic Matter Using C/N Ratio in Freshwater Lakes of Kashmir Himalaya (Lead: Prof. H. Achyuthan)

Chapter 19: Deciphering Climate Variability over Western Himalaya Using Instrumental and Tree-ring Records (Lead: Dr. H. Borgaonkar)

Part-III: Snow, glaciers and hydrology

Chapter 21: Glacio-hydrological model based on degree-day factor useful for the Himalayan River basins (Lead: Prof. R. B. Kayastha)

Chapter 22: Observed changes in north west and central Himalayan cryosphere due to climate change (Lead: Dr. H. S. Negi)

Chapter 23: Impacts of climate change on Himalayan glaciers: processes, predictions and uncertainties (Lead: Dr. Richard Betts)

Chapter 24: Hydrology of Himalayas (Lead: Dr. S. K. Jain)

Chapter 25: Permafrost and seasonally frozen soil in the Himalaya (Lead: Dr. Stephan Gruber)

Chapter 26: Sensitivity of glaciers in part of the Suru basin, western Himalaya to ongoing climatic perturbations (Lead: Dr. A. Shukla)

Chapter 27: floods and changes in their activity in the Indian Himalayan Region (Lead: Prof. Markus Stoffel)

Part-IV: Ecology/Forestry

Chapter 28: Solving life on the move: developing a disperser functional classification for sub-Himalayan tropical forests (Lead: Dr. Soumya Prasad)

Chapter 29: Climate Change Trends and Ecosystem Resilience in the Hindu Kush Himalayas (Lead: Dr. Eklavya Sharma)

Chapter 30: Social science perspectives on vulnerability to seasonal to interannual variability in the Himalayan region (Lead: Dr. M. E. Daly)

Chapter 31: Issues of sustainability in a rapid warming Himalayas (Lead: Prof. S. P. Singh)

Chapter 32: Challenges of Urban Growth Himalaya with Reference to Climate Change and Disaster Risk Mitigation (Lead: Prof. P. C. Tiwari)