Differential loss of glacier stored water in the Indus River basin

In this study, we assessed the glacier stored water (1,620 +/- 340 Gt) using a combination of ice dynamics modelling and volume-area scaling method and estimated glacier mass loss (6.4%) from 2001 to 2013 for the Indus River basin. Results indicate that the impact of climate change is not uniform across the basin, especially the stark dif-ference between the Western Himalayan region where the glaciers are losing mass at the rate of -0.56 +/- 0.27 m.w.e. per annum and the Upper Indus where the loss is at -0.18 +/- 0.11 m.w.e. per annum.