The Tien Shan is regarded as the “Water tower of Central Asia,” being a solid reservoir freshwater resources and also natural early warning indicator climate change. Research on glaciers important for sustainable development management water in Asia. This study investigated spatiotemporal dynamics northern from 1990 to 2015 using multi-source remote sensing meteorological data. results showed t...

[1] Abstract: The arid region extending from the Caspian Sea into China contains some of the most extensive dust aerosol production areas in the world. Major element (Al, Fe, Ca, and S), rare earth element (REE), and isotopic (dS and dO) data from a 14.4-m-long firn core recovered on the Inilchek Glacier (Tien Shan Mountains, Kyrgyzstan; 5100-m elevation) are presented and used to investigate t...

Cosmic ray exposure dates (based on in situ–produced 10Be), in combination with measured heights of fault scarps that cut three abandoned fans, imply a slip rate of less than ~2 mm/yr on the bounding thrust fault along a segment of the southern flank of the Tien Shan of central Asia. This rate, somewhat lower than those for the segment farther west and for the northern margin of the belt, impli...