Abstract
In 2009, a report has highlighted inadequacies in a 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and then the present status of Himalayan glaciers and their fate are a matter of great concern. Various studies have been published during the succeeding years, as a consequence of “the Himalayan Glaciergate”. In this review article, I describe how the inadequate descriptions have been embedded in the IPCC report and how the IPCC had corrected the inadequacies. I also present an overview of relevant studies dealing with Himalayan and/or Asian glaciers in terms of in-situ observation, modeling, and remote-sensing approaches.
