PUBLICATIONS 2023-24

1.    Parvendra Kumar, Milap C Sharma, Sanjay Deswal, Ishita Manna, Elora Chakraborty, Satya Prakash  Last (2023) Glacial Maximum and subsequent glacial chronology in the monsoon-dominated Sikkim Himalaya, India. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

2.    Suresh Das, Milap C Sharma, Madhav Krishna Murari, Marcus Nuesser , Susanne Schmidt  (2023), Erratum: Half-a-century (1971–2020) of glacier shrinkage and climatic variability in the Bhaga basin, western Himalaya.  Journal of Mountain Science 20 (3), 889-890.

3.    Parvendra Kumar & Milap C. Sharma (2023). Frontal Changes in Medium-Sized Glaciers in Sikkim, India during 1988-2018: Insights for Glacier-Climate Synthesis over the Himalaya. iScience 26(10):107789.

4.    Suresh Das, Madhav Krishna Murari, Milap C Sharma, Rakesh Saini, Manoj Jaiswal, Pavitra Kumar, Pankaj Kumar (2023). Reconstraining the Quaternary glacial history of Lahaul Himalaya, Northern India. Quaternary Science Reviews 316:108258

5.    Milap C Sharma & Satya Prakash (2023), Combating Soil Degradation: Some Policy Perspectives. in Desai B (ed): Soil Law and Governance in India DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-32360-7_3

6.    Alessia Guerrieri, Isabel Cantera, Silvio Marta, ….Milap C. Sharma, ..Gentile Francesco Ficetola (2023), Local climate modulates the development of soil nematode communities after glacier retreat. Global Change Biology 30 (1), pp 1-18. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.17057

7.    Isabel Cantera, Alexis Carteron, Alessia Guerrieri, … Milap C. Sharma….Ficetola Gentile Francesco Ficetola (2024). The importance of species addition ‘versus’ replacement varies over succession in plant communities after glacier retreat. Nature Plants 10(2):1-12 DOI: 10.1038/s41477-023-01609-4.

8.    Rasik Ravindra, Anil V. Kulkarni, A P Dimri, Kalachand Sain, Milap C Sharma,….Naresh Pant (2024). Recent Indian studies in Himalayan Cryosphere. Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy. DOI: 10.1007/s43538-024-00237-6

PUBLICATIONS 2021-22

1. Omvir Singh & Milap C Sharma Variability and Trends in Temperature, Rainfall, and Discharge in a Western Himalayan Catchment (March 2022).. Climate Change, Springer, pp 29-45.

2. Varuni Pathak & Milap C Sharma (March 2022). Climate Change and Rising Hazard Potential in Lahaul & Spiti, Himachal Pradesh. Climate Change, Disaster and Adaptations (eds) . Publisher: Springer

3. Suresh Das, Milap C. Sharam & Katie E. Miles (Dec 2021) Flow velocities of the debris-covered Miyar Glacier, western Himalaya, India. Geografiska Annaler Series A Physical Geography, Vol, pp

4. Arindam Chowdhury, Tomáš Kroczek , Sunil Kumar De , Vít Vilímek, Milap Chand Sharma &  Manasi Debnath (Dec 2021). Glacial Lake Evolution (1962–2018) and Outburst Susceptibility of Gurudongmar Lake Complex in the Tista Basin, Sikkim Himalaya (India). Glacial Lake Evolution (1962–2018) and Outburst Susceptibilityof Gurudongmar Lake Complex in the Tista Basin,Sikkim Himalaya (India). Water, Vol 13, pp 1-22.

5. Milap C Sharma, Ishita Manna & Elora Chakraborty (Oct 2021). Contemporary dynamics and Holocene extent of glaciers in the Himalayas. In: Holocene Climate Change and Environment (eds), pp

6. Silvio, M, Azzoni, R ...Milap C Sharma and others. (Oct 2021) The Retreat of Mountain Glaciers since the Little Ice Age: A Spatially Explicit Database..

7. Suresh Das & Milap C Sharma (Aug 2021). Glacier surface velocities in the Jankar Chhu Watershed, western Himalaya, India: Study using Landsat time series data (1992–2020), Remote Sensing Applications Society and Environment 24(80):100615.

8. Arindam Chowdhury. Milap C Sharma. Sunil Kumar De & Manasi Debnath (June 2021). Glacier changes in the Chhombo Chhu Watershed of the Tista basin between 1975 and 2018, the Sikkim Himalaya, India. Earth System Science Data, 13(6) pp 2923–2944.

9. Satya Prakash, Milap C Sharma, S. Sreekesh et al (June 2021). Decadal Terminus Position Changes and Ice Thickness Measurement of Menthosa Glacier in Lahaul Region of North-Western Himalaya, Geocarto International. https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tgei20

Prakash, S., Sharma, M.C., Shahnawaz et al. J Indian Soc Remote Sens (2019) 47: 1295. 

Manasi Debnath, Milap Chand Sharma^, and H.J. Syiemlieh. Geosciences (Cryosphere)

Rakesh Saini, Milap Chand Sharma, Sanjay Deswal, Iestyn David Barr, 5 Pawan Kumar, Parvendra Kumar, Pankaj Kumar, Sundeep Chopra. Anthropocene, Vol 26, Article 100197

Snow Avalanche Hazard Vulnerability Analysis of Himachal Pradesh

Disaster Advances 12 (10), 34-42

Glacio-archaeological evidence of warmer climate during the Little Ice Age  in the Miyar basin, Lahul Himalaya, India. 5. Seasonal characteristics of black carbon aerosol mass concentrations and influence of meteorology, New Delhi (India)

Rakesh Saini, Milap Chand Sharma, Sanjay Deswal, Iestyn David Barr, Parvendra Kumar: Climate of the Past, EGU, Online Discussion Paper

Sharma, Milap C., Pandey, V.K., Kumar, R., Latief, S.U., Chakrawarthy, E., Acharya, P.Urban Climate, (Online)

Late Holocene Glacier Dynamics in the   Miyar Basin, Lahaul Himalaya, India

Shigri Glacier fluctuation since the end of the Little Ice Age, Chandra valley,north-western Himalaya.

Pritam Chand, Milap C. Sharma, Rakesh Bhambri, C.V Sangewar and Navin Juyal. Progress in Physical Geography, Vol 41/5, pp 643-675.

Sharma, Milap C., Pandey, V.K., Kumar, R., Latief, S.U., Chakrawarthy, E., Acharya, P.

Urban Climate, Dec 2017 (Online)

Implications of Shrinking Cryosphere Under Changing Climate on the Streamflows in the Lidder Catchment in the Upper Indus Basin, India

Shakil Ahmad Romshoo^1,2, Reyaz A. Dar¹, Irfan Rashid¹, Asif Marazi¹, Nahida Ali¹ and Sumira N. Zaz¹ , Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 47(4):627-644

Geomorphology, sedimentology and minimum exposure ages of drumlins/streamlined subglacial landforms in the NW Himalaya, India

Sourav Saha, Milap Chand Sharma, Madhav K Murari, Lewis A Owen and Marc W. Caffee. Boreas, International Journal of Quaternary Research, pp 1-20

Glacier changes in the Ravi basin, North-Western Himalaya (India) during the last four decades (1971–2010/13)

Pritam Chand and Milap Chand Sharma, Global and Planetary Change, pp. 1-15.

Frontal changes in the Manimahesh and Tal Glaciers in the Ravi basin, Himachal Pradesh, north-western Himalaya (India), between 1971 and 2013

Pritam Chand and Milap Chand Sharma, International Journal of RemoteSensing, Vol 36/16, pp 4095-4113.

Are the Himalayan glaciers retreating?

I. M. Bahuguna, B. P. Rathore, Rupal Brahmbhatt, Milap Sharma, Sunil Dhar, S. S. Randhawa, Kireet Kumar, Shakil Romshoo, R. D. Shah, R. K. Ganjoo and Ajai. Current Science Vol 106, pp 1008-1014.

2014

Timing and climatic drivers for glaciation across monsoon-influenced regions of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen

Madhav K. Murari, Lewis A. Owen, Jason M. Dortch, Marc W. Caffee, Craig Dietsch, Markus Fuchs , William C. Haneberg, Milap C. Sharma , Amy Townsend-Small. Quaternary Science Reviews, Vol 88, pp 152-182.

2014

Himalayan Glacier and Climate Change:        A Case of Misunderstood Science.

Sharma, Milap; Deswal, Sanjay and Kumar, P., Think India Quarterly, Vol 12/4, pp 80-87.

2009

Terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide surface exposure dating of the glacial successions in the Himalayan orogen: Ladakh range, northern India.

Owen LA, Caffee MW, Bovard KR, Finkel RC and Sharma, Milap C; Geological Survey of America Bulletin, Vol 118, pp 383-392.

2006