Indian Himalayas Climate Adaptation Programme
The subsequent sections give a brief outline of the contents of the compiled courses/topics concerning glaciology and related areas:
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This course provides a quantitative introduction to the Global Climate system and Climate modeling, which attempts to understand and predict climate changes. It briefly...
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The course includes introduction to climate downscaling and its importance. The course describes “Regional climate Modelling” with emphasis on “Coordinated...
03
The course provides a detailed overview of glacier dynamics, ice flows, calving and glacier instabilities. The course explains in detail the physical basis of ice flow...
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The course introduces basic concepts and features of Monsoon, SW and NE monsoons over India; monsoon trough, onset and advance of monsoon, synoptic features associated...
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This course provides an overview of basic radiation laws including black body radiation. Interaction of solar radiations with atmosphere, snow and ice is given special...
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The course contents include water balance in a glaciered catchment; water storage changes, water balance of a glacier. Runoff and its variability, contribution of...
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The course exposes the students to different methods of discharge measurements in mountain environment. Water level measurements, Area-Velocity measurements and the...
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The course provides a descriptive account of remote sensing of glacier mapping and monitoring: mapping glacier extents and snowline. Overview of global glacier...
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The course provides a basic understanding of glacier mass budget, glacier mass balance gradient and glacier mass balance profile. The course describes in detail the...