Dynamics of suspended sediment load with respect to summer discharge and temperatures in Shaune Garang glacierized catchment, Western HimalayaShow others and affiliations
2018 (English)In: Acta Geophysica, ISSN 1895-6572, E-ISSN 1895-7455, Vol. 66, no 5, p. 1109-1120
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Abstract [en]
The observed and predicted rise in temperature will have deleterious impact on melting of snow and ice and form of precipitation which is already evident in Indian Himalayan Region. The temperature-dependent entities like discharge and sediment load will also vary with the observed and predicted rise posing environmental, social and economic threat in the region. There is little known about sediment load transport in relation to temperature and discharge in glacierized catchments in Himalaya mainly due to the scarcity of ground-based observation. The present study is an attempt to understand the suspended sediment load and transportation in relation to variation in discharge and temperature in the Shaune Garang catchment. The result shows strong dependence of sediment concentration primarily on discharge (R2 = 0.84) and then on temperature (R2 = 0.79). The catchments with similar geological and climate setting were observed to have comparatively close weathering rate. The sediment load was found to be higher in the catchments in eastern and central part of Indian Himalayan Region in comparison with western part due to dominance of Indian Summer Monsoon leading to high discharge. The annual physical weathering rate in Shaune Garang catchment was found to be 411 t km−2 year−1 which has increased from 327 t km−2 year−1 in around three decades due to rise in temperature causing increase in discharge and proportion of debris-covered glacierized area.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer, 2018. Vol. 66, no 5, p. 1109-1120
National Category
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary Aerospace Engineering
Research subject
Atmospheric science
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-70166DOI: 10.1007/s11600-018-0184-4ISI: 000448505400022Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85050691506OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-70166DiVA, id: diva2:1235693
Note
Validerad;2018;Nivå 2;2018-12-05 (svasva)
2018-07-262018-07-262021-03-12Bibliographically approved