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Central Himalayan tree-ring isotopes reveal increasing regional heterogeneity and enhancement in ice mass loss since the 1960s
Nilendu Singh
Centre for Glaciology, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun
248001, India
Mayank Shekhar
Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow 226007, India
Jayendra Singh
Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun 248001, India
Anil K. Gupta
Department of Geology and Geophysics, IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, India
Institute of Geography, University of Erlangen–Nuremberg,
91058 Erlangen, Germany
Christoph Mayr
Institute of Geography, University of Erlangen–Nuremberg,
91058 Erlangen, Germany
Mohit Singhal
Centre for Glaciology, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun
248001, India
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Short summary
Tree-ring isotope records from the central Himalaya provided a basis for previously lacking regional multi-century glacier mass balance (MB) reconstruction. Isotopic and climate coherency analyses specify an eastward-declining influence of the westerlies, an increase in east–west climate heterogeneity, and an increase in ice mass loss since the 1960s. Reasons for this are attributed to anthropogenic climate change, including concurrent alterations in atmospheric circulation patterns.
Tree-ring isotope records from the central Himalaya provided a basis for previously lacking...
