Snow capped areas in the Himalayas are most vulnerable to global warming and are among the least studied areas with connection to the climate change phenomenon. In order to explore different aspects of glacier retreat, this research admits some facts on energy balance and mass balance of snow and glacier in the Langtang region of Nepalese Himalaya with respect to turbulent heat flux, i.e.; sensible heat flux and latent heat flux. Kyangjin meteorological station in the Langtang valley was chosen for this purpose, where meteorological information was available for past six months.
Energy Balance method was used to derive the heat flux components. It was observed that the variation in heat flux trend was consistent to the meteorological parameters and its contribution was high for the energy balance. The latent heat flux (-90W/m2) was about five times higher than the sensible heat flux (-20W/m2).
As the contribution of the heat flux to the energy balance is high, it is recommended that these components should not be ignored when dealing with mass and energy balance.
