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Small cloudbursts in Ladakh

What is it about?

Cloudbursts in cold-region of Ladakh Himalaya is frequently occurring. Extremely limited spatial spread of such events are not well appreciated. This paper shows such events can occur in the non-monsoon season, having extremely small <3 km2 spread and highly devastating. Call for better monitoring mechanism in place for early warning as well as process understanding.

Why is it important?

Paper is based on a rare Sentinel image capture of a live event showing CB flood in the stream, providing an important visual evidence for such a small event.

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Renoj Thayyen
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