ESTIMATION OF LANDCOVER TYPES OVER HIMALAYAN REGION WITH THE CLASSIFICATION OF OPTICAL AND MICROWAVE-BASED IMAGE FUSION DATASET

Tree-ring isotope records from central Himalaya provided a basis for century-scale approximation on hydroclimate and glacier interaction. Multi-species isotopic coherencies specify an abrupt phase-shift since the 1960s and the governing role of winter-westerlies in regional ice-mass variability. Radiative forcing and glacier valley-scale vegetation trend analyses indicate that attribution of ice-mass to large-scale dynamics is likely to be modulated by local vegetation changes.