This book is the first comprehensive research about central Asia cryosphere as a system, the unique natural system that maintains life in the world largest central Asia arid endorheic basin

This book is the result of many years original research in central Asia that employs surface observational remote sensing and deep alpine ice-coring data in simulation modern, past and future evolution of climate and alpine cryosphere in center of Eurasia

This book will be supplied with color photographs of beautiful alpine scenarios and web access to original data including high resolution satellite imagery

The readers will see an extraordinary interesting relationship between the atmosphere, climate, cryosphere and hydrological processes in arid central Asian endorheic basins and their role in existence of thousands of years central Asian civilization