Publications Selected Under the Systematic Review (139)

Publications Selected under the Systematic Review (139):

Ahmad Z, Hafeez M, Ahmad I (2012) Hydrology of mountainous areas in the upper Indus Basin, Northern Pakistan with the perspective of climate change. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 184:5255–5274. doi: 10.1007/s10661-011-2337-7

Akhtar M, Ahmad N, Booij MJ (2008) The impact of climate change on the water resources of Hindukush-Karakorum-Himalaya region under different glacier coverage scenarios. Journal of Hydrology 355:148–163. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2008.03.015

Archer DR, Forsythe N, Fowler HJ, Shah SM (2010) Sustainability of water resources management in the Indus Basin under changing climatic and socio economic conditions. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 14:1669–1680. doi: 10.5194/hess-14-1669-2010

Arora M, Singh P, Goel NK, Singh RD (2008) Climate variability influences on hydrological responses of a large Himalayan basin. Water Resources Management 22:1461–1475. doi: 10.1007/s11269-007-9237-1

Ashiq MW, Zhao C, Ni J, Akhtar M (2010) GIS-based high-resolution spatial interpolation of precipitation in mountain-plain areas of Upper Pakistan for regional climate change impact studies. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 99:239–253. doi: 10.1007/s00704-009-0140-y

Bagchi R, Crosby M, Huntley B, et al. (2013) Evaluating the effectiveness of conservation site networks under climate change: accounting for uncertainty. Global change biology 19:1236–48. doi: 10.1111/gcb.12123

Balica SF, Wright NG, van der Meulen F (2012) A flood vulnerability index for coastal cities and its use in assessing climate change impacts. Natural Hazards 64:73–105. doi: 10.1007/s11069-012-0234-1

Batisani N, Yarnal B (2010) Rainfall variability and trends in semi-arid Botswana: Implications for climate change adaptation policy. Applied Geography 30:483–489. doi: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2009.10.007

Bhuiyan MJAN, Dutta D (2012) Assessing impacts of sea level rise on river salinity in the Gorai river network, Bangladesh. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science 96:219–227. doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2011.11.005

Bhutiyani MR, Kale VS, Pawar NJ (2008) Changing streamflow patterns in the rivers of northwestern Himalaya: Implications of global warming in the 20th century. Current Science 95:618–626.

Biggs EM, Watmough GR (2012) A COMMUNITY-LEVEL ASSESSMENT OF FACTORS AFFECTING LIVELIHOODS IN NAWALPARASI DISTRICT, NEPAL. Journal of International Development 24:255–263. doi: 10.1002/jid.1844

Blignaut J, Ueckermann L, Aronson J (2009) Agriculture production’s sensitivity to changes in climate in South Africa. South African Journal of Science 105:61–68.

Boateng I (2012) An assessment of the physical impacts of sea-level rise and coastal adaptation: a case study of the eastern coast of Ghana. Climatic Change 114:273–293. doi: 10.1007/s10584-011-0394-0

Bocchiola D, Diolaiuti G, Soncini A, et al. (2011) Prediction of future hydrological regimes in poorly gauged high altitude basins: the case study of the upper Indus, Pakistan. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 15:2059–2075. doi: 10.5194/hess-15-2059-2011

Bolch T, Kulkarni A, Kaab A, et al. (2012) The State and Fate of Himalayan Glaciers. Science 336:310–314. doi: 10.1126/science.1215828

Bonasoni P, Cristofanelli P, Marinoni A, et al. (2012) Atmospheric Pollution in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya Region Evidence and Implications for the Regional Climate. Mountain Research and Development 32:468–479. doi: 10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-12-00066.1

Booij MJ, Tollenaar D, van Beek E, Kwadijk JCJ (2011) Simulating impacts of climate change on river discharges in the Nile basin. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 36:696–709. doi: 10.1016/j.pce.2011.07.042

Boulain N, Cappelaere B, Seguis L, et al. (2006) Hydrologic and land use impacts on vegetation growth and NPP at the watershed scale in a semi-arid environment. Regional Environmental Change 6:147–156. doi: 10.1007/s10113-006-0014-0

Chaturvedi RK, Gopalakrishnan R, Jayaraman M, et al. (2011) Impact of climate change on Indian forests: a dynamic vegetation modeling approach. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 16:119–142. doi: 10.1007/s11027-010-9257-7

Chaudhary P, Bawa KS (2011) Local perceptions of climate change validated by scientific evidence in the Himalayas. Biology Letters 7:767–770. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0269

Chaudhary P, Rai S, Wangdi S, et al. (2011) Consistency of local perceptions of climate change in the Kangchenjunga Himalaya landscape. Current Science 101:504–513.

Chen X, Cui P, Li Y, et al. (2007) Changes in glacial lakes and glaciers of post-1986 in the Poiqu River basin, Nyalam, Xizang (Tibet). Geomorphology 88:298–311. doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.11.012

Church JA, White NJ (2011) Sea-Level Rise from the Late 19th to the Early 21st Century. Surveys in Geophysics 32:585–602. doi: 10.1007/s10712-011-9119-1

Cui X, Graf H-F (2009) Recent land cover changes on the Tibetan Plateau: a review. Climatic Change 94:47–61. doi: 10.1007/s10584-009-9556-8

Dai A (2011) Drought under global warming: a review. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 2:45–65. doi: 10.1002/wcc.81

Dash SK, Mamgain A (2011) Changes in the Frequency of Different Categories of Temperature Extremes in India. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 50:1842–1858. doi: 10.1175/2011JAMC2687.1

Dhiman RC, Chavan L, Pant M, Pahwa S (2011) National and regional impacts of climate change on malaria by 2030. Current Science 101:372–383.

Dimri AP, Dash SK (2012) Wintertime climatic trends in the western Himalayas. Climatic Change 111:775–800. doi: 10.1007/s10584-011-0201-y

Druyan LM (2011) Studies of 21st-century precipitation trends over West Africa. International Journal of Climatology 31:1415–1424. doi: 10.1002/joc.2180

Duncan C, Chauvenet ALM, McRae LM, Pettorelli N (2012) Predicting the Future Impact of Droughts on Ungulate Populations in Arid and Semi-Arid Environments. Plos One. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051490

Ebi KL, Woodruff R, von Hildebrand A, Corvalan C (2007) Climate change-related health impacts in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas. Ecohealth 4:264–270. doi: 10.1007/s10393-007-0119-z

El-Nahry AH, Doluschitz R (2010) Climate change and its impacts on the coastal zone of the Nile Delta, Egypt. Environmental Earth Sciences 59:1497–1506. doi: 10.1007/s12665-009-0135-0

Ericson JP, Vorosmarty CJ, Dingman SL, et al. (2006) Effective sea-level rise and deltas: Causes of change and human dimension implications. Global and Planetary Change 50:63–82. doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2005.07.004

Erwin KL (2009) Wetlands and global climate change: the role of wetland restoration in a changing world. Wetlands Ecology and Management 17:71–84. doi: 10.1007/s11273-008-9119-1

Forrest JL, Wikramanayake E, Shrestha R, et al. (2012) Conservation and climate change: Assessing the vulnerability of snow leopard habitat to treeline shift in the Himalaya. Biological Conservation 150:129–135. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.03.001

Fowler HJ, Archer DR (2006) Conflicting signals of climatic change in the Upper Indus Basin. Journal of Climate 19:4276–4293. doi: 10.1175/JCLI3860.1

Gain AK, Immerzeel WW, Weiland FCS, Bierkens MFP (2011) Impact of climate change on the stream flow of the lower Brahmaputra: trends in high and low flows based on discharge-weighted ensemble modelling. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 15:1537–1545. doi: 10.5194/hess-15-1537-2011

Gao J, Williams MW, Fu X, et al. (2012) Spatiotemporal distribution of snow in eastern Tibet and the response to climate change. Remote Sensing of Environment 121:1–9. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.01.006

Gardelle J, Arnaud Y, Berthier E (2011) Contrasted evolution of glacial lakes along the Hindu Kush Himalaya mountain range between 1990 and 2009. Global and Planetary Change 75:47–55. doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2010.10.003

Gaughan AE, Waylen PR (2012) Spatial and temporal precipitation variability in the Okavango–Kwando–Zambezi catchment, southern Africa. Journal of Arid Environments 82:19–30. doi: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2012.02.007

Gautam MR, Acharya K, Tuladhar MK (2010) Upward trend of streamflow and precipitation in a small, non-snow-fed, mountainous watershed in Nepal. Journal of Hydrology 387:304–311. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.04.022

Gentle P, Maraseni TN (2012) Climate change, poverty and livelihoods: adaptation practices by rural mountain communities in Nepal. Environmental Science & Policy 21:24–34. doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2012.03.007

Ghosh S, Dutta S (2012) Impact of climate change on flood characteristics in Brahmaputra basin using a macro-scale distributed hydrological model. Journal of Earth System Science 121:637–657. doi: 10.1007/s12040-012-0181-y

Giannini A (2010) Mechanisms of Climate Change in the Semiarid African Sahel: The Local View. Journal of Climate 23:743–756. doi: 10.1175/2009JCLI3123.1

Gonzalez P, Tucker CJ, Sy H (2012) Tree density and species decline in the African Sahel attributable to climate. Journal of Arid Environments 78:55 – 64. doi: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2011.11.001

Gopal B (2013) Future of wetlands in tropical and subtropical Asia, especially in the face of climate change. Aquatic Sciences 75:39–61. doi: 10.1007/s00027-011-0247-y

Gopal B, Chauhan M (2006) Biodiversity and its conservation in the Sundarban Mangrove Ecosystem. Aquatic Sciences 68:338–354. doi: 10.1007/s00027-006-0868-8

Gopalakrishnan R, Jayaraman M, Bala G, Ravindranath NH (2011) Climate change and Indian forests. Current Science 101:348–355.

Gosain AK, Rao S, Arora A (2011) Climate change impact assessment of water resources of India. Current Science (00113891) 101:356–371.

Goswami BN, Venugopal V, Sengupta D, et al. (2006) Increasing Trend of Extreme Rain Events Over India in a Warming Environment. Science 314:1442–1445. doi: 10.1126/science.1132027

Goyal MK, Ojha CSP, Burn DH (2012) Nonparametric Statistical Downscaling of Temperature, Precipitation, and Evaporation in a Semiarid Region in India. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 17:615–627. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000479

Gupta PK, Panigrahy S, Parihar JS (2011) Impact of Climate Change on Runoff of the Major River Basins of India Using Global Circulation Model (HadCM3) Projected Data. Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing 39:337–344. doi: 10.1007/s12524-011-0101-7

Haussmann BIG, Rattunde HF, Weltzien-Rattunde E, et al. (2012) Breeding Strategies for Adaptation of Pearl Millet and Sorghum to Climate Variability and Change in West Africa. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science 198:327–339. doi: 10.1111/j.1439-037X.2012.00526.x

Heubes J, Kühn I, König K, et al. (2011) Modelling biome shifts and tree cover change for 2050 in West Africa. Journal of Biogeography 38:2248–2258. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02560.x

Hinkel J, Brown S, Exner L, et al. (2012) Sea-level rise impacts on Africa and the effects of mitigation and adaptation: an application of DIVA. Regional Environmental Change 12:207–224. doi: 10.1007/s10113-011-0249-2

Hoffman MT, Carrick PJ, Gillson L, West AG (2009) Drought, climate change and vegetation response in the succulent karoo, South Africa. South African Journal of Science 105:54–60.

Hoffman MT, Rohde RF (2011) Rivers Through Time: Historical Changes in the Riparian Vegetation of the Semi-Arid, Winter Rainfall Region of South Africa in Response to Climate and Land Use. Journal of the History of Biology 44:59–80. doi: 10.1007/s10739-010-9246-4

Holdo RM, Galvin KA, Knapp E, et al. (2010) Responses to alternative rainfall regimes and antipoaching in a migratory system. Ecological Applications 20:381–397. doi: 10.1890/08-0780.1

Hosterman HR, McCornick PG, Kistin EJ, et al. (2012) Freshwater, climate change and adaptation in the Ganges River Basin. Water Policy 14:67–79. doi: 10.2166/wp.2011.065

Huang J, Guan X, Ji F (2012) Enhanced cold-season warming in semi-arid regions. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 12:5391–5398. doi: 10.5194/acp-12-5391-2012

Huebener H, Kerschgens M (2007) Downscaling of current and future rainfall climatologies for southern Morocco. Part II: Climate change signals. International Journal of Climatology 27:1065–1073. doi: 10.1002/joc.1457

Hughes DA, Kingston DG, Todd MC (2011) Uncertainty in water resources availability in the Okavango River basin as a result of climate change. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 15:931–941. doi: 10.5194/hess-15-931-2011

Immerzeel W (2008) Historical trends and future predictions of climate variability in the Brahmaputra basin. International Journal of Climatology 28:243–254. doi: 10.1002/joc.1528

Immerzeel WW, van Beek LPH, Bierkens MFP (2010) Climate Change Will Affect the Asian Water Towers. Science 328:1382–1385. doi: 10.1126/science.1183188

Immerzeel WW, van Beek LPH, Konz M, et al. (2012) Hydrological response to climate change in a glacierized catchment in the Himalayas. Climatic Change 110:721–736. doi: 10.1007/s10584-011-0143-4

Jain SK, Goswami A, Saraf AK (2010) Assessment of Snowmelt Runoff Using Remote Sensing and Effect of Climate Change on Runoff. Water Resources Management 24:1763–1777. doi: 10.1007/s11269-009-9523-1

Jeelani G, Feddema JJ, van der Veen CJ, Stearns L (2012) Role of snow and glacier melt in controlling river hydrology in Liddar watershed (western Himalaya) under current and future climate. Water Resources Research. doi: 10.1029/2011WR011590

Jung G, Kunstmann H (2007) High-resolution regional climate modeling for the Volta region of West Africa. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres. doi: 10.1029/2006JD007951

Karim MF, Mimura N (2008) Impacts of climate change and sea-level rise on cyclonic storm surge floods in Bangladesh. Global Environmental Change 18:490 – 500. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2008.05.002

Karki MB, Shrestha AB, Winiger M (2011) Enhancing Knowledge Management and Adaptation Capacity for Integrated Management of Water Resources in the Indus River Basin. Mountain Research and Development 31:242–251. doi: 10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-11-00017.1

Kenabatho PK, Parida BP, Moalafhi DB (2012) The value of large-scale climate variables in climate change assessment: The case of Botswana’s rainfall. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 50-52:64–71. doi: 10.1016/j.pce.2012.08.006

Khan AS, Ramachandran A, Usha N, et al. (2012) Predicted impact of the sea-level rise at Vellar-Coleroon estuarine region of Tamil Nadu coast in India: Mainstreaming adaptation as a coastal zone management option. Ocean & Coastal Management 69:327–339. doi: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2012.08.005

Knox J, Hess T, Daccache A, Wheeler T (2012) Climate change impacts on crop productivity in Africa and South Asia. Environmental Research Letters 7:034032. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/3/034032

Kothawale DR, Revadekar JV, Kumar KR (2010) Recent trends in pre-monsoon daily temperature extremes over India. Journal of Earth System Science 119:51–65.

Kumar K, Joshi S, Joshi V (2008) Climate variability, vulnerability, and coping mechanism in Alaknanda catchment, Central Himalaya, India. Ambio 37:286–291. doi: 10.1579/0044-7447(2008)37[286:CVVACM]2.0.CO;2

Kumar P (2012) Assessment of impact of climate change on Rhododendrons in Sikkim Himalayas using Maxent modelling: limitations and challenges. Biodiversity and Conservation 21:1251–1266. doi: 10.1007/s10531-012-0279-1

Kumar V, Jain SK (2011) Trends in rainfall amount and number of rainy days in river basins of India (1951-2004). Hydrology Research 42:290–306. doi: 10.2166/nh.2011.067

Kure S, Jang S, Ohara N, et al. (2012) Hydrologic impact of regional climate change for the snowfed and glacierfed river basins in the Republic of Tajikistan: hydrological response of flow to climate change. Hydrological Processes n/a–n/a. doi: 10.1002/hyp.9535

Lioubimtseva E, Henebry GM (2009) Climate and environmental change in arid Central Asia: Impacts, vulnerability, and adaptations. Journal of Arid Environments 73:963–977. doi: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2009.04.022

Liu J, Wang Z, Gong T, Uygen T (2012) Comparative analysis of hydroclimatic changes in glacier-fed rivers in the Tibet- and Bhutan-Himalayas. Quaternary International 282:104–112. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.06.008

Lohmann D, Tietjen B, Blaum N, et al. (2012) Shifting thresholds and changing degradation patterns: climate change effects on the simulated long-term response of a semi-arid savanna to grazing. Journal of Applied Ecology 49:814–823. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2012.02157.x

Lu XX, Zhang S, Xu J (2010) Climate change and sediment flux from the Roof of the World. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 35:732–735. doi: 10.1002/esp.1924

Maestre FT, Salguero-Gomez R, Quero JL (2012) It is getting hotter in here: determining and projecting the impacts of global environmental change on drylands Introduction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 367:3062–3075. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0323

Manandhar S, Vogt DS, Perret SR, Kazama F (2011) Adapting cropping systems to climate change in Nepal: a cross-regional study of farmers’ perception and practices. Regional Environmental Change 11:335–348. doi: 10.1007/s10113-010-0137-1

Marshall M, Funk C, Michaelsen J (2012) Examining evapotranspiration trends in Africa. Climate Dynamics 38:1849–1865. doi: 10.1007/s00382-012-1299-y

Martin D, Lal T, Sachdev CB, Sharma JP (2010) Soil organic carbon storage changes with climate change, landform and land use conditions in Garhwal hills of the Indian Himalayan mountains. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment 138:64–73. doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2010.04.001

Mayer C, Lambrecht A, Mihalcea C, et al. (2010) Analysis of Glacial Meltwater in Bagrot Valley, Karakoram Based on Short-term Ablation and Debris Cover Observations on Hinarche Glacier. Mountain Research and Development 30:169–177. doi: 10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-09-00043.1

Miller JD, Immerzeel WW, Rees G (2012) Climate Change Impacts on Glacier Hydrology and River Discharge in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas A Synthesis of the Scientific Basis. Mountain Research and Development 32:461–467. doi: 10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-12-00027.1

Milzow C, Burg V, Kinzelbach W (2010) Estimating future ecoregion distributions within the Okavango Delta Wetlands based on hydrological simulations and future climate and development scenarios. Journal of Hydrology 381:89–100. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.11.028

Mirza MMQ (2011) Climate change, flooding in South Asia and implications. Regional Environmental Change 11:S95–S107. doi: 10.1007/s10113-010-0184-7

Mitra A, Gangopadhyay A, Dube A, et al. (2009) Observed changes in water mass properties in the Indian Sundarbans (northwestern Bay of Bengal) during 1980-2007. Current Science 97:1445–1452.

Moors EJ, Groot A, Biemans H, et al. (2011) Adaptation to changing water resources in the Ganges basin, northern India. Environmental Science & Policy 14:758–769. doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2011.03.005

Moustadraf J, Razack M, Sinan M (2008) Evaluation of the impacts of climate changes on the coastal Chaouia aquifer, Morocco, using numerical modeling. Hydrogeology Journal 16:1411–1426. doi: 10.1007/s10040-008-0311-4

Murray-Hudson M, Wolski P, Ringrose S (2006) Scenarios of the impact of local and upstream changes in climate and water use on hydro-ecology in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Journal of Hydrology 331:73–84. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2006.04.041

Nandargi S, Dhar ON (2011) Extreme rainfall events over the Himalayas between 1871 and 2007. Hydrological Sciences Journal-Journal Des Sciences Hydrologiques 56:930–945. doi: 10.1080/02626667.2011.595373

Nasim G, Shabbir A (2012) SHIFTING HERBIVORY PATTERN DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE: A CASE STUDY OF HIMALAYAN BALSAM FROM PAKISTAN. Pakistan Journal of Botany 44:63–68.

Nicholls RJ (2011) Planning for the Impacts of Sea Level Rise. Oceanography 24:144–157.

Paudel KP, Andersen P (2011) Monitoring snow cover variability in an agropastoral area in the Trans Himalayan region of Nepal using MODIS data with improved cloud removal methodology. Remote Sensing of Environment 115:1234–1246. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.01.006

Pricope NG, Binford MW (2012) A spatio-temporal analysis of fire recurrence and extent for semi-arid savanna ecosystems in southern Africa using moderate-resolution satellite imagery. Journal of Environmental Management 100:72–85. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.01.024

Raha A, Das S, Banerjee K, Mitra A (2012) Climate change impacts on Indian Sunderbans: a time series analysis (1924-2008). Biodiversity and Conservation 21:1289–1307. doi: 10.1007/s10531-012-0260-z

Rajpurohit S, Parkash R, Singh S, Ramniwas S (2008) Climate change, boundary increase and elongation of a pre-existing cline: A case study in Drosophila ananassae. Entomological Research 38:268–275. doi: 10.1111/j.1748-5967.2008.00186.x

Rao KN, Subraelu P, Kumar KCVN, et al. (2011) Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise: Impact On Agriculture Along Andhra Pradesh Coast-A Geomatics Analysis. Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing 39:415–422. doi: 10.1007/s12524-011-0120-4

Ravi S, Breshears DD, Huxman TE, D’Odorico P (2010) Land degradation in drylands: Interactions among hydrologic-aeolian erosion and vegetation dynamics. Geomorphology 116:236–245. doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.11.023

Rees HG, Collins DN (2006) Regional differences in response of flow in glacier-fed Himalayan rivers to climatic warming. Hydrological Processes 20:2157–2169. doi: 10.1002/hyp.6209

Richardson FD, Hahn BD, Hoffman MT (2007) Modelling the sustainability and productivity of pastoral systems in the communal areas of Namaqualand. Journal of Arid Environments 70:701–717. doi: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2006.07.013

Ruane AC, Major DC, Yu WH, et al. (2013) Multi-factor impact analysis of agricultural production in Bangladesh with climate change. Global Environmental Change 23:338–350. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.09.001

Ruelland D, Ardoin-Bardin S, Collet L, Roucou P (2012) Simulating future trends in hydrological regime of a large Sudano-Sahelian catchment under climate change. Journal of Hydrology 424:207–216. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.01.002

Sanchez-Arcilla A, Moesso C, Pau Sierra J, et al. (2011) Climatic drivers of potential hazards in Mediterranean coasts. Regional Environmental Change 11:617–636. doi: 10.1007/s10113-010-0193-6

Saran S, Joshi R, Sharma S, et al. (2010) Geospatial Modeling of Brown Oak (Quercus semecarpifolia) Habitats in the Kumaun Himalaya under Climate Change Scenario. Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing 38:535–547. doi: 10.1007/s12524-010-0038-2

Sarr B (2012) Present and future climate change in the semi-arid region of West Africa: a crucial input for practical adaptation in agriculture. Atmospheric Science Letters 13:108–112. doi: 10.1002/asl.368

Scherler D, Bookhagen B, Strecker MR (2011) Spatially variable response of Himalayan glaciers to climate change affected by debris cover. Nature Geoscience 4:156–159. doi: 10.1038/NGEO1068

Scholze M, Knorr W, Arnell NW, Prentice IC (2006) A climate-change risk analysis for world ecosystems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103:13116–13120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0601816103

Sharma R (2012) Impacts on Human Health of Climate and Land Use Change in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region Overview of Available Information and Research Agenda. Mountain Research and Development 32:480–486. doi: 10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-12-00068.1

Sharma RH, Shakya NM (2006) Hydrological changes and its impact on water resources of Bagmati watershed, Nepal. Journal of Hydrology 327:315–322. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2005.11.051

Shrestha AB, Aryal R (2011) Climate change in Nepal and its impact on Himalayan glaciers. Regional Environmental Change 11:S65–S77. doi: 10.1007/s10113-010-0174-9

Shrestha AB, Eriksson M, Mool P, et al. (2010) Glacial lake outburst flood risk assessment of Sun Koshi basin, Nepal. Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk 1:157–169. doi: 10.1080/19475701003668968

Shrestha UB, Gautam S, Bawa KS (2012) Widespread Climate Change in the Himalayas and Associated Changes in Local Ecosystems. Plos One. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036741

Singh P, Arora M, Goel NK (2006) Effiect of climate change on runoff of a glacierized Himalayan basin. Hydrological Processes 20:1979–1992. doi: 10.1002/hyp.5991

Singh P, Kumar V, Thomas T, Arora M (2008) Changes in rainfall and relative humidity in river basins in northwest and central India. Hydrological Processes 22:2982–2992. doi: 10.1002/hyp.6871