Tika Ram Gurung

Tika Ram Gurung
University of Nebraska–Lincoln | NU · Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Masters of Science
PhD Candidate

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August 2020 - December 2022
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
Position
  • Cryosphere Analyst
March 2016 - July 2020
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
Position
  • Research Associate
September 2015 - February 2016
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
Position
  • Intern

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Publications (11)
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In the context of global climate change, heatwaves are becoming increasingly significant because of the adverse impacts on human health and ecosystems. However, the quantification of heatwaves relies on different temperature metrics, and little is known about how the different types of heatwaves are affected by soil moisture. Using a set of observa...
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Changing climatic conditions in High Mountain Asia (HMA), especially regional warming and changing precipitation patterns, have led to notable effects on mountain permafrost. Comprehensive knowledge of mountain permafrost in HMA is mostly limited to the mountains of the Qinghai Tibetan Plateau (QTP), with a strong cluster of research activity relat...
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Despite their importance for regional water resource planning and as indicators of climate change, records of in situ glacier mass balance remain short and spatially sparse in the Himalaya. Here, we present an updated series of in situ mass-balance measurements from Rikha Samba Glacier, Nepal, between 2011 and 2021. The updated in situ mass balance...
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The glacier mass balance is an important variable to describe the climate system and is used for various applications like water resource management or runoff modelling. The direct or glaciological method and the geodetic method are the standard methods to quantify glacier mass changes, and both methods are an integral part of international glacier...
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The Langtang catchment is a high mountain, third order catchment in the Gandaki basin in the Central Himalaya (28.2° N, 85.5° E), that eventually drains into the Ganges. The catchment spans an elevation range from 1400 m.a.s.l. to 7234 m.a.s.l. and approximately one quarter of the area is glacierised. Numerous research projects have been conducted...
Technical Report
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One of the main objectives of the Strengthening Water Resources Management in Afghanistan (SWaRMA) project is to build cryosphere monitoring capacities in Afghanistan with an overall objective of creating the base for a sustainable, long-term cryosphere monitoring programme. Evaluating the available data on hydrometeorological variables in catchmen...
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The direct or glaciological method is an integral part of international glacier monitoring strategies, and the mass balance is an essential variable to describe the climate system and model runoff. In 2011, we established two glacier mass balance programmes on Yala and Rikha Samba Glacier in the Nepal Himalaya. Here we present the methods and data...
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In cold and arid climates, small glaciers with cold accumulation zones are often thought to be entirely cold based. However, scattering in ground-penetrating radar (GPR) measurements on the Rikha Samba Glacier in the Nepal Himalayas suggests a large amount of temperate ice that seems to be influenced by the presence of crevassed areas. We used a co...
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In cold and arid climate, small glaciers with cold accumulation zone are often thought to be entirely cold based. However, Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) measurements on Rikha Samba Glacier in the Nepal Himalaya reveal a large amount of temperate ice that seems to be influenced by the presence of crevassed areas. We used a coupled thermo-mechanical...

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I am hoping to do SCA analysis of Nepal in python but I am stuck in downloading the images from the FTP mainly in assigning date range. 
Can anyone help me providing python code for downloading MODIS snow cover data ( 8 days Terra product) for certain range suppose (2005-2007)?

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