Spatiotemporal patterns of High Mountain Asia's snowmelt season identified with an automated snowmelt detection algorithm, 1987–2016

Smith, Taylor; Bookhagen, Bodo; Rheinwalt, Aljoscha

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2329-2017

Articles | Volume 11, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2329-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2329-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 5

Research article

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06 Oct 2017

Research article |

| 06 Oct 2017

Spatiotemporal patterns of High Mountain Asia's snowmelt season identified with an automated snowmelt detection algorithm, 1987–2016

Taylor Smith, Bodo Bookhagen, and Aljoscha Rheinwalt

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RC1: 'Review of Spatio-temporal patterns of HMA's snowmelt season', Anonymous Referee #1, 15 Jun 2017
- AC1: 'Reply to Reviewers', Taylor Smith, 13 Jul 2017
RC2: 'Referee Comment', Anonymous Referee #2, 26 Jun 2017
- AC2: 'Reply to Reviewers', Taylor Smith, 13 Jul 2017

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AR by Taylor Smith on behalf of the Authors (13 Jul 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (14 Jul 2017) by Ross Brown

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (25 Jul 2017)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (26 Jul 2017)

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (27 Jul 2017)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (04 Aug 2017) by Ross Brown

AR by Taylor Smith on behalf of the Authors (18 Aug 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (05 Sep 2017) by Ross Brown

AR by Taylor Smith on behalf of the Authors (07 Sep 2017)

Short summary

High Mountain Asia’s rivers, which serve more than a billion people, receive a significant portion of their water budget in the form of snow. We develop an algorithm to track timing of the snowmelt season using passive microwave data from 1987 to 2016. We find that most of High Mountain Asia has experienced shorter melt seasons, earlier snow clearance, and earlier snowmelt onset, but that these changes are highly spatially and temporally heterogeneous.