Background Reading & References

 

E. Byers


Learn about the Nepali Himalayas and the innovative research that our Scientific Advisory Board has conducted there.


CLIMATE

  • Matthews, T. & L.B. Perry. Inside the Everest expedition that built the world’s highest weather station. National Geographic. 2019. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/2019/06/mount-everest-highest-weather-station/

  • Matthews, T. & L.B. Perry, National Geographic and Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Extreme Expedition to Mt. Everest Team, et al. Going to Extremes: Installing the World’s Highest Weather Stations on Mount Everest. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0198.1

  • Miner, K. R., Mayewski, P. A., Matthews, T., Perry, B., Baidya, S. K., Broad, K., Clifford, H., Gajurel, A. P., Giri, B., Hubbard, M., Jaskolski, C., Koldewey, H., Li, W., Napper, I., Potocki, M., Priscu, J. C., Tait, A., Thompson, R., & Tuladhar, S. (2020). Emergent risks in the Mt. Everest region in the time of anthropogenic climate change. Heather Koldewey, 12(11). http://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01010

  • Perry, L. Baker; Yuter, Sandra; Matthews, Tom; Wagnon, Patrick; Khadka, Arbindra; Aryal, Deepak; et al. (2020): Direct observations of a Mt. Everest snowstorm from the world’s highest surface-based radar observations. Loughborough University. Journal contribution. https://hdl.handle.net/2134/12928847.v1

  • Matthews, T. (2013). Glacier-Climate Interactions: A Synoptic Approach. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/288381306.pdf

  • Matthews, T., Baker Perry, L., Elmore, A. C., Seimon, A., Wilby, R. L., Tait, A., Athans, P., Aryal, D., Shrestha, D., Tuladhar, S., Baidya, S. K., Gajurel, A., & Mayewski, P. (2020). Out of thin air: assessing dangerously strong winds on Mount Everest. (Publication Pending).

  • Hillier, J.K., Matthews, T., Wilby, R.L. et al. Multi-hazard dependencies can increase or decrease risk. Nat. Clim. Chang. 10, 595–598 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0832-y

  • Perry, B., Matthews, T., Abernathy, K., Aryal, D., Shrestha, D., Khadka, A., & Elmore, A. (2020). Elevating Meteorological Understanding on Everest: Installing the Highest Weather Stations on Earth. AMS. https://ams.confex.com/ams/2020Annual/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/366833

  • Perry, B., Matthews, T. K. R., Aryal, D., Shrestha, D., & Khadka, A. (2019, December 12). Automatic Weather Stations at Extreme Elevations on Mt. Everest: Initial Observations and Applications. https://agu-do03.confex.com/agu/fm19/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/588137

  • Matthews, T., Perry, B., Aryal, D., Shrestha, D., & Khadka, A. (2019). New Heights in Glacier-Climate Research: Initial Insights From the Highest Weather Stations on Earth. AGUFM, 2019, GC52B-05. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019AGUFMGC52B..05M/abstract

  • Khadka, A., Perry, B., Matthews, T. K. R., Aryal, D., Shrestha, D., Khadka, A., Perry, B., Matthews, T. K. R., Aryal, D., & Shrestha, D. (2019). Meteorological Analysis of High Altitude Automatic Weather Station Data from the Everest Region. AGUFM, 2019, GC52B-03. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019AGUFMGC52B..03K/abstract

  • Perry, L Baker; Yuter, Sandra; Matthews, Tom; Wagnon, Patrick; Khadka, Arbindra; Aryal, Deepak; et al. (2020): Direct observations of a Mt. Everest snowstorm from the world’s highest surface-based radar observations. Loughborough University. Journal contribution. https://hdl.handle.net/2134/12928847.v1

GEOLOGY

  • Ghazoui, Z., Bertrand, S., Vanneste, K., Gajurel, A. P., et al. Potentially large post-1505 AD earthquakes in western Nepal revealed by a lake sediment record. Nat Commun 10, 2258 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10093-4

  • Morin, G. P., Lavé, J., France‐Lanord, C., Rigaudier, T., Gajurel, A. P., & Sinha, R. (2018). Annual sediment transport dynamics in the Narayani basin, Central Nepal: Assessing the impacts of erosion processes in the annual sediment budget. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 123, 2341– 2376. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JF004460

  • Jouanne, F., Gajurel, A., et al. (2019). Postseismic deformation following the April 25, 2015 Gorkha earthquake (Nepal): Afterslip versus viscous relaxation. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 176, 105–119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2019.02.009

  • Mencin, D., Gajurel, A. P., Bendick, R., Upreti, et al. (2016). Himalayan strain reservoir inferred from limited afterslip following the Gorkha earthquake. Nature Geoscience, 9(7), 533–537. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2734

  • Kurashimo, E., Gajurel, A. P., Sato, H., Sakai, S., et al. (2019). The 2015 Gorkha Earthquake: Earthquake Reflection Imaging of the Source Fault and Connecting Seismic Structure With Fault Slip Behavior. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(6), 3206–3215. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL081197

  • Märki, L., Gajurel, A. P., Lupker, M., Gies, H., et al. (2020). Molecular Tracing of Riverine Soil Organic Matter From the Central Himalaya. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(16). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL087403

  • Mugnier, J. L., Gajurel, A., Jouanne, F., et al. (2017). Segmentation of the Himalayan megathrust around the Gorkha earthquake (25 April 2015) in Nepal. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences (Vol. 141, pp. 236–252). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2017.01.015

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