Permafrost Modelling in the Himalaya: Three Days at ICIMOD
Reflections from a three-day hands-on workshop on energy balance modelling of permafrost environments, held at ICIMOD in Kathmandu. All course material is open-access.
Getting Started with GEOtop: A Short Course at EGU 2026
We are offering a hands-on short course on GEOtop and GEOframe at EGU 2026 in Vienna. Here's what to expect and how to prepare.
Introducing GEOtop and GEOframe: Open Source Tools for Modeling Snow Dominated Catchments
A short course on setting up physically-based snow models in mountain catchments.
An integrated computational framework for high-dimensional parameter optimization in coupled hydro-thermal permafrost modelling
A novel GEOtop-MATLAB framework for automated calibration and sensitivity analysis of coupled hydro-thermal permafrost models, applied to three boreholes near Hornsund, Svalbard.
Abhishek Bamby Alphonse
Impact of forest disturbances on snow dynamics
Presented findings on how forest changes impact snow dynamics.
Permafrost in the Upper Indus Basin: An active layer dynamics
Abstract Permafrost in the Upper Indus Basin (UIB) in Ladakh, India, is a critical water source and is less studied. Identifying permafrost and its characteristics is a crucial …
Inferring Permafrost in the Indian Himalayas
Providing the first-ever field-based permafrost characteristics in the Indian Himalayan region.
The surface energy balance in a cold and arid permafrost environment, Ladakh, Himalayas, India
Abstract Recent studies have shown the cold and arid trans-Himalayan region comprises significant areas underlain by permafrost. While the information on the permafrost …
Single-year thermal regime and inferred permafrost occurrence in the upper Ganglass catchment of the cold-arid Himalaya, Ladakh, India
Abstract Cold-arid regions of the trans-Himalaya in the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) is suspected to have a significant area of permafrost. However, information on the ground …