Improving Knowledge about Snow by Crossing Qualitative and Quantitative Data from the Everest Region (Nepal)

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The authors would especially like to thank the members of the PAPRIKA team (ANR-09-CEP-005-05/PAPRIKA) without whom these disciplinary interactions would not have been possible and who encouraged the encounter between geography and hydrology and subsequent exchanges, and also the members of the PRESHINE project (ANR 13-SENV-0005-01 and ANR-13-SENV-0005-02) during which this dynamic was maintained. Similarly, the authors address a huge thank you to the Nepalese who accompanied them during their fieldwork throughout the research programme, and in particular the hydrologist and researcher Devesh Koirala and field assistants Harka Bahadur Majhi and Dawa Nuru Sherpa. Finally, special thoughts go to all the villagers of Pangboche who kindly opened their doors to us and who shared their feelings in spite of their initial reticence. The PAPRIKA and PRESHINE projects were funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR).

Current and future water balance of a mountain subcatchment of Issyk-Kul Lake, Tien Shan range, Kyrgyzstan

“…However, despite its advantages, the choice of HDSM has one major drawback: the surface area of the glacier remains static over time. Consequently, the results of applying the model to long time intervals need to be interpreted with caution and this is undoubtedly a limit, although Puschiasis et al (2022) did so in a previous study conducted in the Mount Everest region in Nepal. The limits of doing so in the present study are addressed in the discussion.…”