Aerosols heating up Himalayan climate, accelerating retreat of glaciers: study.

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According to a study, aerosols are warming the Himalayan climate and hastening glacier loss.

Researchers from the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad, the Helmholtz Centre in Potsdam, and the University of Leipzig in Germany discovered in a joint study that Aerosols alone are responsible for more than half of the overall warming of the lower atmosphere of the region, with greenhouse gases accounting for the remaining percentage.
According to a study, aerosols are warming the Himalayan climate and hastening glacier loss.
According to study, aerosols are dramatically warming the Himalayan climate, accelerating glacier retreat, and altering precipitation patterns over the Hindu Kush-Himalaya-Tibetan Plateau (HKHTP) region. Researchers from the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad, the Helmholtz Centre in Potsdam, and the University of Leipzig in Germany discovered in a joint study that aerosols alone are responsible for more than half of the overall warming of the lower atmosphere of the region, with greenhouse gases accounting for the remaining percentage.

The study predicts that aerosols will continue to be a major driver of climate change in the area. The Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP), the foothills of the Himalayas, and the Tibetan Plateau were among of the regions where the researchers measured the aerosol concentrations and the quantity of heat absorbed (radiative forcing).

In their analysis, the authors noted that these are “relatively poorly studied regions with several sensitive ecosystems of global importance, as well as highly vulnerable large populations.” The researchers urged for a more accurate depiction of aerosol features, noting that the current climate models grossly underestimate aerosol-induced warmth, efficiency, and warming in the HKHTP region.

The journal Science of The Total Environment has published these findings.

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