Siachen Glacier melting slower than others in Himalayas

Express News Service

BENGALURU: The Siachen Glacier is escaping the excessive fee of melting that different Himalayan glaciers are experiencing because of the influence of local weather change. This signifies that the glacier, which is taken into account strategic to each India and Pakistan, is prone to stay the best battleground on the planet for a lot of extra many years to return than imagined.

A staff of researchers from the University of Leeds, which studied 14,798 Himalayan glaciers throughout and for the reason that Little Ice Age (which occurred between the 14th and nineteenth century) by laptop reconstruction of the sizes and ice surfaces of those glaciers, has discovered these glaciers to be melting at a fee ten instances quicker, dropping round 40 per cent of their space — shrinking from a peak of 28,000 sqkm to round 19,600 sqkm in the present day.

However, famend glaciologist and professor on the Divecha Centre for Climate Change (DCCC) on the Indian Institute of Science, Dr Anil V Kulkarni informed The New Indian Express that regardless of Himalayan glaciers dropping ice ten instances faster than on a median within the final 400 to 700 years, as discovered by the University of Leeds researchers, Siachen Glacier will stay comparatively steady longer. 

He defined that the Siachen Glacier, located north of Ladakh and wedged between the Trans Karakoram Tract within the north, Gilgit-Baltistan within the west and Aksai Chin within the east, is within the Karakoram mountain vary and is topic to the “Karakoram anomaly”. This deviation in glacial soften development present in Siachen Glacier is a part of an anomalous progress of glaciers within the central Karakoram, which is in distinction to the retreat of glaciers in close by Himalayan ranges. This means glaciers inside the vary — together with Siachen — are comparatively steady, regardless of glaciers in close by areas retreating and shrinking quicker as a result of world warming.