Impacts on Mixed Mountain Agriculture in the Rupal Valley, Nanga Parbat, Northern Pakistan

1996 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Nusser ◽  
Jurgen Clemens
Keyword(s):  
Northern Pakistan ◽  
Mountain Agriculture ◽  
Nanga Parbat

Tectonic exhumation of the Nanga Parbat massif, northern Pakistan

1995 ◽  
Vol 133 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 213-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary S. Hubbard ◽  
David A. Spencer ◽  
David P. West
Keyword(s):  
Northern Pakistan ◽  
Nanga Parbat ◽  
Tectonic Exhumation

Exhumation overrated at Nanga Parbat, northern Pakistan

1996 ◽  
Vol 260 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 215-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan G. Whittington
Keyword(s):  
Northern Pakistan ◽  
Nanga Parbat

Resistive (dry?) lower crust in an active orogen, Nanga Parbat, northern Pakistan

2000 ◽  
Vol 316 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 359-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen K. Park ◽  
Randall L. Mackie
Keyword(s):  
Lower Crust ◽  
Northern Pakistan ◽  
Nanga Parbat

scholarly journals Fluctuations of Raikot Glacier during the past 70 years: a case study from the Nanga Parbat massif, northern Pakistan

2009 ◽  
Vol 55 (194) ◽  
pp. 949-959 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Schmidt ◽  
Marcus Nüsser
Keyword(s):  
General Trend ◽  
Multiscale Approach ◽  
Polar Regions ◽  
Northern Pakistan ◽  
The Past ◽  
Covered Area ◽  
Nanga Parbat ◽  
Glacier Advance ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe Himalaya has some of the largest glacier concentrations outside the polar regions. Despite this, long-term measurements detecting the impact of global warming and changing precipitation patterns on glaciers are rare. The Nanga Parbat massif in northern Pakistan is an exception. The cartographer and glaciologist R. Finsterwalder investigated glacier dynamics of this mountain massif in the 1930s, and several other studies document changes since then. The aim of this study is to detect and analyse the changes of Raikot Glacier over the past seven decades. We use a multitemporal and multiscale approach, based on repeat terrestrial images, additional historical data and remotely sensed imagery (Corona, ASTER, Landsat, QuickBird). The multitemporal approach covers the period 1934–2007. While the analyses show a total glacier retreat of ~200 m in 73 years, this general trend was interrupted by a significant glacier advance between the 1950s and 1980s. Although down-wasting processes can be inferred from an increase in debris-covered area, a general trend of reduced glacier thickness does not appear significant over the whole observation period.

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