Peer-Reviewed Publications

[in review] Water, Ice, Society and Ecosystems in the Hindu Kush Himalaya: An Outlook

[in review] Rocky Talchabhadel, Shreedhar Maskey, Manish R. Gouli,Kshitij Dahal, Amrit Thapa, Sanjib Sharma, Amod M. Dixit and Saurav Kumar. A diagnostic analysis of the 2021 Melamchi disaster, doi:

[in review] Tenzing Chogyal Sherpa, Tom Matthews, L. Baker Perry, Amrit Thapa, Praveen Kumar Singh, Arbindra Khadka, Inka Koch, Mauri Pelto, Prajjwal Panday, Deepak Aryal, Dibas Shrestha, Shichang Kang and Paul Mayewski. Insights from the first observations of winter weather near Mount Everest’s summit, Weather, doi:

[in review] Gunjan Silwal, Mohamed E. Ammar, Amrit Thapa, Barrie Bonsal and Monireh Faramarzi. Response of glacier melt modelling parameters to time, space, and model complexity:examples from eastern slopes of Canadian Rocky Mountains, Science of the Total Environment.

[accepted] Sukant Jain, Varun Tiwari, Amrit Thapa, Rohit Mangla,Rahul Jaiswal, Vinay Kumar, Supriya Tiwari, Mirela Tulbure, Ravi Galkate, Anil Lohani and Kamal Pandey. Performance evaluation of Google Earth Engine based precipitation datasets under different climatic zones over India, Remote Sensing in Earth Systems Sciences, doi:10.22541/au.165217346.61030333/v1.

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8. Thapa, Sahadeep, Fan Zhang, Hongbo Zhang, Chen Zeng, Li Wang, Chong-Yu Xu, Amrit Thapa, and Santosh Nepal. (2021). Assessing the snow cover dynamics and its relationship with different hydro-climatic characteristics in Upper Ganges River basin and its sub-basins, Science of The Total Environment, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148648.

7. Thapa, Amrit, and Sher Muhammad (2021). Daily Terra–Aqua MODIS cloud-free snow and Randolph Glacier Inventory 6.0 combined product (M*D10A1GL06) for high-mountain Asia between 2002 and 2019, Earth System Science Data, doi:0.5194/essd-13-767-2021. [ PDF ].

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6. Tiwari, Varun, Vinay Kumar, Mir Abdul Matin, Amrit Thapa, Walter Lee Ellenburg, Nishikant Gupta, and Sunil Thapa (2020). Flood inundation mapping-Kerala 2018; Harnessing the power of SAR, automatic threshold detection method and Google Earth Engine, PLoS ONE, doi:0.1371/journal.pone.0237324. [ PDF ].

5. Thapa, Amrit, and Sher Muhammad (2020). An improved Terra-Aqua MODIS snow cover and Randolph Glacier Inventory 6.0 combined product (MOYDGL06*) for high-mountain Asia between 2002 and 2018, Earth System Science Data, doi:10.5194/essd-12-345-2020. [ PDF ].

4. Thapa, Amrit, and Sher Muhammad (2020). Contemporary Snow Changes in the Karakoram Region Attributed to Improved MODIS Data between 2003 and 2018, Water, doi:10.3390/w12102681. [ PDF ].

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3. Kirkham, James D., Inka Koch, Tuomo M. Saloranta, Maxime Litt, Emmy E. Stigter, Knut Møen, Amrit Thapa, Kjetil Melvold, and Walter W. Immerzeel (2019). Near real-time measurement of snow water equivalent in the Nepal Himalayas, Frontiers in Earth Science, doi:10.3389/feart.2019.00177. [ PDF ].

2. Saloranta, Tuomo, Amrit Thapa, James D. Kirkham, Inka Koch, Kjetil Melvold, Emmy Stigter, Maxime Litt, and Knut Møen (2019). A Model Setup for Mapping Snow Conditions in High-Mountain Himalaya, Frontiers in Earth Science, doi:10.3389/feart.2019.00129. [ PDF ].

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1. Thapa, Amrit, and Rijan Bhakta Kayastha (2015). Extraction of Periodic Components and Time Adaptive Long-term Trends of Temperature and Precipitation as Climate Variables in Langtang River Basin, Nepal Using Empirical Mode Decomposition, Journal of Climate Change, doi:10.3233/JCC-150008.