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Water related effects of changes in glacier mass balance and river runoff in western Himalaya, India: past, present and future (GLACINDIA)

The GLACINDIA project, under the Agreement of Cooperation in Science & Technology between the governments of India and Norway, the Department of Science and Technology (DST) of the Government of India and the Research Council of Norway (RCN), searches fun ding for joint and cooperative research on water related effects of changes in mass balance of glaciers/rivers.GLACINDIA will strengthen established and ongoing research activities between the partners and make significant scientific contributions and ad ded value to these activities. Effective and targeted dissemination of the results to governmental agencies, stakeholders and the general public is highly prioritized. The project includes: (a) arranging exchange visits (field trips and conferences/ works hops/meetings) of Indian and Norwegian scientists to the counterpart country, (b), funding of 2 post docs, and training of young scientists to promote knowledge transfer among project partners.This proposal draws its research activities on an existing p artnership between Norway and India (TERI-BCCR Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs capacity building project, the INDNOR travel-workshop funding and the NORINDIA project) with new collaborators: a) in Norway: UiB, UiO, b) in India: Jawaharlal Nehru Univ ersity; c) in Germany: German Climate Service Centre (CSC). This proposal brings in-kind funding resources from our own projects. GLACINDIA is a multi-disciplinary project and unique not only due to the participating institutions, but for the state-of-the -art science and knowledge transfer.We aim at reducing uncertainties in one region of Western Himalaya by a combination of field data of glacier mass balance and hydrology/river discharge in the past and present in combination with climate downscaling a nd modelling experiments at Chhota Shigri and Patsio glaciers.One of the main aim of GLACINDIA is to arrange exchange visits through field trips, conferences workshops, and meeting

Prosjektleder:
Atle Nesje
Institusjon:
UoH-sektor/Uni Research AS
Aktivitetsnavn:
Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015
Prosjektstatus:
Bevilgning
Prosjektperiode:
01.05.2013 - 30.04.2016
Geografi:
Norge/HORDALAND/BERGEN
Fagområder:
Matematikk og naturvitenskap/Geofag
Prosjektnummer:
222159