Water quality in the Third Pole : the roles of climate change and human activities / edited by Chhatra Mani Sharma, State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Lanzhou, P.R. China, Central Department of Environmental Science, Institute of Science and Technology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal, Shichang Kang, State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Lanzhou, P.R. China, CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Science, Beijing, P.R. China, Lekhendra Tripathee, State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Lanzhou, P.R. China.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chemical components and distributions in precipitation in the Third Pole / Lekhendra Tripathee, Shichang Kang, Chaoliu Li, Shiwei Sun and Chhatra Mani Sharma -- Chemical components and distributions of aerosols in the Third Pole / Kirpa Ram, Hemraj Bhattarai and Zhiyuan Cong -- Chemical components and distributions in glaciers of the Third Pole / Shichang Kang, Yulan Zhang, Qianggong Zhang, Xiaoping Wang, Zhiwen Dong, Chaoliu Li, Chuanfei Wang, Pengfei Chen and Bakhat Rawat -- Inorganic components in river waters in the Third Pole / Bin Qu, Rukumesh Paudyal, Ramesh Raj Pant and Faizan Ur Rehman Qaiser -- Nutrients and organic carbons in river waters of the Third Pole / Prakriti Sharma Ghimire, Bin Qu, Xiaoping Wang, Lekhendra Tripathee, Rukumesh Paudyal, Chhatra Mani Sharma and Shichang Kang -- Geochemical constituents in hot spring waters in the Third Pole / Santosh K. Rai -- Inorganic components in lake waters in the Third Pole / Rita Bhatta, Prakriti Sharma Ghimire, Lekhendra Tripathee, Smriti Gurung, Dikshya Regmi, Rajendra Joshi and Chhatra Mani Sharma -- Nutrients and organic carbons in lake waters of the Third Pole / Smriti Gurung, Lekhendra Tripathee, Xiaoping Wang, Rukumesh Paudyal, Rita Bhatta and Chhatra Mani Sharma.