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Glacier Stress Pattern as an Indicator for Climate Change . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Ashit Kumar Swain
Glacier Response to Climate in Arctic and Himalaya During
Last Seventeen Years: A Case Study of Svalbard, Arctic
and Chandra Basin, Himalaya. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Parmanand Sharma, Lavkush Kumar Patel, Ajit T. Singh,
Thamban Meloth, and Rasik Ravindra
Implications of Changing Climatic Pattern on the Geopolitical
Situation of North Western Himalaya, India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Ashwagosha Ganju and H. S. Negi
Glacier Melt Water Characteristics of Hamtah Glacier,
Lahaul and Spiti District, Himachal Pradesh, India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
S. P. Shukla, Rakesh Mishra, and Ajai Kumar
Responses of Indian Summer Monsoon Dynamics and Late
Quaternary Fluvial Development: Records from Yamuna
River Valley, NW-Himalaya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Sharat Dutta, S. A. I. Mujtaba, R. Bhavani, Mohammad Atif Raza,
R. Chunchekar, and Mohd Sadiq
An Appraisal of Spatio-Temporal Characteristics of Temperature
and Precipitation Using Gridded Datasets over NW- Himalaya . . . . . . . . 219
H. S. Negi and Neha Kanda
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