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Editorial team Arun Bhakta Shrestha, ICIMOD Nand Kishor Agrawal, ICIMOD Björn Alfthan, GRID-Arendal Sagar Ratna Bajracharya, ICIMOD Judith Maréchal, ICIMOD Bob van Oort, CICERO Cartography Riccardo Pravettoni Gauri Shankar Dangol, ICIMOD Asha Kaji Thaku, ICIMOD

Layout GRID-Arendal

Anja Møller Rasmussen, ICIMOD Dharma Ratna Maharjan, ICIMOD

Contributors Walter Immerzeel, FutureWater/Utrecht University, Netherlands Arthur Lutz, FutureWater, the Netherlands Rupak Rajbhandari, Tribhuvan University, Nepal Tiina Kurvits, GRID-Arendal Tina Schoolmester, GRID-Arendal

Reviewers & advisors David Molden, ICIMOD Eklabya Sharma, ICIMOD

ISBN #: (printed) 978-92-9115-356-5 (electronic) 978-92-9115-357-2 LCCN #: 2015-306001

Asun Lera St Clair, Det Norske Veritas Germanischer Lloyd, Norway Rajiv Kumar Chaturvedi, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Dhrupad Choudhury, ICIMOD Yannick Beaudoin, GRID-Arendal

Recommended citation: Shrestha, AB; Agrawal, NK; Alfthan, B; Bajracharya, SR; Maréchal, J; van Oort, B (eds) (2015) The Himalayan Climate and Water Atlas: Impact of climate change on water resources in five of Asia’s major river basins. ICIMOD, GRID-Arendal and CICERO

Copyeditor Susan Sellars-Shrestha

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