💧🌏 Greg Cocks35m ago
Scientists See More Vegetation In The Himalayas, But It Is Not Good News, Because That Extra “Green” Can Disrupt Water, Snow, And High-Mountain Biodiversity | Plants Growing Higher Across Himalaya As Climate Warms
(Vegetation On The Move: Elevational Shifts And Greening Dynamics Across The Himalayan Alpine Zone)
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https://www.ecoticias.com/en/scientists-see-more-vegetation-in-the-himalayas-but-it-is-not-good-news-because-that-extra-green-can-disrupt-water-snow-and-high-mountain-biodiversity/33120/ <-- shared technical article
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https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-environment-science-and-economy/earth-and-environmental-science/plants-growing-higher-across-himalaya-as-climate-warms/ <-- shared technical newsitem
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https://doi.org/10.1002/ecog.08259 <-- shared (2026) paper
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https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14919 <-- shared (2020) paper
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“For years, the biggest climate warning from the Himalaya was easy to picture because glaciers were shrinking on the roof of Asia. Now, researchers are pointing to a quieter signal, one that can look almost harmless from a distance. The mountains are getting greener.
New research [link above] shows alpine vegetation moving higher across six Himalayan regions from 1999 to 2022, pushed in part by warming and reduced snow depth. That might sound like nature recovering, but in this fragile landscape, more plant cover at extreme heights may change how snow is stored, how water runs downhill, and how rivers behave for communities far below…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #satellite #landsat #landcover #NDVI #Himalaya #Nepal #India #Bhutan #climatechange #glacier #vegetation #alpine #level #greening #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #snow #water #ice #hydrography #hydrology #ecosystems #humaninpacts #phenology #model #modeling #HighMountainAsia #greenness #ERA5 #vegetationline #altitude #climatictrends #warming #precipitation #rainfall
TROPOS15h ago
#Colloquium by Professors appointed in recent years to the Faculty of #Physics and #EarthSystem Sciences - yesterday at @unileipzig . Many thanks for the inspiring presentations, which also shed light on the collaborations with non-university partners, to: Heike Kalesse-Los, Hannes Feilhauer & Miguel Mahecha ! / #Arctic #ClimateChange #Atmosphere #goSouth2 #RemoteSensing #Environmental #DataScience #BBCE #BreathingNature
EOMasters23h ago

Hello EOMasters! It's time to celebrate. 🥳 I'm getting some funding by the German "Bescheinigungstelle Forschungszulage" which roughly translates to "Research Tax Credit Certification Office" or something along those lines. This grant is being awarded for my work on the EOMasters Toolbox. I'm very happy 😊 to share this information with you

#RemoteSensing #EarthObservation #grant

💧🌏 Greg Cocks1d ago
[G]lobal Decline In Endorheic Basin Water Storages
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0265-7 <-- shared paper
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endorheic_basin <-- shared Wikipedia page
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“Endorheic (hydrologically landlocked) basins spatially concur with arid/semi-arid climates. Given limited precipitation but high potential evaporation, their water storage is vulnerable to subtle flux perturbations, which are exacerbated by global warming and human activities. Increasing regional evidence suggests a probably recent net decline in endorheic water storage, but this remains unquantified at a global scale. By integrating satellite observations and hydrological modelling, [they] reveal[ed] that during 2002–2016 the global endorheic system experienced a widespread water loss of about 106.3 Gt/yr, attributed to comparable losses in surface water, soil moisture and groundwater. This decadal decline, disparate from water storage fluctuations in exorheic basins, appears less sensitive to El Niño–Southern Oscillation-driven climate variability, which implies a possible response to longer-term climate conditions and human water management. In the mass-conserved hydrosphere, such an endorheic water loss not only exacerbates local water stress, but also imposes excess water on exorheic basins, leading to a potential sea level rise that matches the contribution of nearly half of the land glacier retreat (excluding Greenland and Antarctica). Given these dual ramifications, [they] suggest the necessity for long-term monitoring of water storage variation in the global endorheic system and the inclusion of its net contribution to future sea level budgeting…”
#water #hydrology #hydrography #global #waterresources #waterstorage #Endorheic #Basin #watersecurity #arid #semiarid #rainfall #precipitation #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #globalwarming #climatechange #humanimpacts #anthropogenic #regional #remotesensing #GIS #spatial #mapping #earthobservation #surfacewater #groundwater #soilmoisture #exorheic #watermanagement #hydrosphere #waterstress #SLR #sealevelrise #monitoring #waterbudgets
💧🌏 Greg Cocks1d ago
Decoupling Of Surface Water Storage From Precipitation In Global Drylands Due To Anthropogenic Activity
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-024-00367-7 <-- shared paper
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“The availability of surface water in global drylands is essential for both human society and ecosystems. However, the long-term drivers of change in surface water storage, particularly those related to anthropogenic activities, remain unclear. Here [they] use[d] multi-mission remote sensing data to construct monthly time series of water storage changes from 1985 to 2020 for 105,400 lakes and reservoirs in global drylands. An increase of 2.20 km³ per year in surface water storage is found primarily due to the construction of new reservoirs. For lakes and old reservoirs (constructed before 1983), conversely, the trend in storage is minor when aggregated globally, but they dominate surface water storage trends in 91% of individual global dryland basins. Further analysis reveals that long-term storage changes in these water bodies are primarily linked to anthropogenic factors - including human-induced warming and water-management practices - rather than to precipitation changes, as previously thought. These findings reveal a decoupling of surface water storage from precipitation in global drylands, raising concerns about societal and ecosystem sustainability…”
#water #hydrology #hydrography #waterstorage #waterresources #surfacewater #global #drylands #precipitation #rainfall #watersecurity #ecosystems #habitat #publichealth #anthropogenic #GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #spatiotemporal #spatialanalysis #monitoring #geostatistics #engineering #reservoirs #infrastructure #lakes #waterbodies #globalwarming #climatechange #sustainability #planning #baseline
💧🌏 Greg Cocks1d ago
On The Use Of Rainfall Time Series For Regional Landslide Prediction By Means Of Functional Regression
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2026.108860 <-- shared paper
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#rainfallinduced #landslide #Functionalregression #Japan #Earlywarningsystem #Spacetimeprediction #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #massmovement #engineeringgeology #geomorphology #hydrogeomorphology #geomorphometry #remotesensing #geostatistics #model #modeling #mechanics #rainfall #threshold #precipitation #water #hydrology #risk #hazard #hazardassessment #terrain #landscape #landform #landuse #geology #soil #lithology #functionalGeneralizedAdditiveModel #FGAM #prediction #casestudy #AI #LLM
💧🌏 Greg Cocks5d ago
Vanishing Of Very Small Glacierets Throughout The Northern And Central Andes Of Chile
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https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2026.10052 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2024.1377216 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2025.1565290 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2026.10050 <-- shared paper
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#water #hydrology #glacier #glacierets #chile #southamerica #andes #mountains #continental #cryosphere #delineation #fluctuations #GIS #spatial #mapping #meteorology #remotesensing #change #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #climatechange #extremeweather #snow #ice #melting #vanishing #ChileanPublicGlacierInventory #catalogue #loss #reduction #megadrought #hydrography
Jose5d ago
Come work with us at KCL Geography! #Postdoc position on #Amazon #carbonfluxes #wildfire #vegetation. Loads of really cool #remotesensing #earthobservation data. Deadline: June 8th https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/147006-research-associate #job #academicjob
Research Associate | King's College London

King's College London
💧🌏 Greg Cocks6d ago
Streamflow And Surface-Water Presence Data Availability Across The Conterminous United States [CONUS] - A Review For Headwater Systems
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https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.70572 <-- shared paper
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#water #hydrography #hydrology #CONUS #USA #streamflow #surfacewater #bias #monitoring #regional #gage #gauge #headwater #stream #literaturereview #opendata #publicdata #review #spatial #spatialanalysis #mapping #USWest #sensor #remotesensing #model #modeling #research #network #probabilityofflow #permanence #ecosystems #waterresources #watermanagement #streamgage #CONUS #Lower48th #firstorder #secondorder #Strahler #distribution #spatialdistribution #communityscience #geomorphometry #hydrogeomorphology #physiography
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Bipin C6d ago

Its Festive season on earth!. The onset of Monsoon over the Indian sub-continent marks a sharp transition from the extreme heat to heavy rainfall. Nature exhibits its creativity in the sky and on the land.

The sun in its journey to the northern hemisphere brings a shift in the direction and characteristics of wind.
The Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) follows sun in its journey.
ITCZ is a belt of low pressure where winds from the southern and northern hemisphere converge.
As ITCZ moves northwards, it pulls the moist winds from the southern hemisphere towards the Northern Hemisphere.

Now the wind wind experience more disturbances as it flow over numerous islands in the Indian Ocean, and the mountain ranges over the landmasses.
These disturbances accelerates the cloud formation over the region and often leads heavy rainfall over the region.

For a remotesensing professional, this is a dull time of the year. As most of the time, the earth is covered with clouds.
But if you are interested in following the chaos of nature, it is a great time to look at the sky from space.

In another perspective, the small disturbances that originates in the ocean, slowly turns into a large cloud cluster or a depression.
rain over the land, soaking the seeds waiting for rain to sprout.
slowly turning the barren land to green meadows. powering a sequence of activities from sowing to harvesting.
and the economy of the nation.
#climate #Monsoon #remotesensing #INSAT #timepass

https://www.mosdac.gov.in/
https://mausam.imd.gov.in/imd_latest/contents/satellite.php
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/vu3bpn_monsoon-weather-chaos-activity-7466015375340789761-vl_V