Brief communication: Updated GAMDAM glacier inventory over high-mountain Asia

Sakai, Akiko

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2043-2019

Articles | Volume 13, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2043-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2043-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 7

Brief communication

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19 Jul 2019

Brief communication | Highlight paper |

| 19 Jul 2019

Brief communication: Updated GAMDAM glacier inventory over high-mountain Asia

Akiko Sakai

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2043-2019-supplement

Data sets

GAMDAM glacier inventory for High Mountain Asia: Area-altitude distribution for Central Asia. A. Sakai https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.891415

GAMDAM glacier inventory for High Mountain Asia: Area-altitude distribution for North Asia. A. Sakai https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.891416

GAMDAM glacier inventory for High Mountain Asia: Area-altitude distribution for South Asia East. A. Sakai https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.891417

GAMDAM glacier inventory for High Mountain Asia: Area-altitude distribution for South Asia West. A. Sakai https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.891418

GAMDAM glacier inventory for High Mountain Asia: Central Asia in ArcGIS (shapefile) format. A. Sakai https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.891419

GAMDAM glacier inventory for High Mountain Asia: North Asia in ArcGIS (shapefile) format. A. Sakai https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.891420

GAMDAM glacier inventory for High Mountain Asia: South Asia East in ArcGIS (shapefile) format. A. Sakai https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.891421

GAMDAM glacier inventory for High Mountain Asia: South Asia West in ArcGIS (shapefile) format. A. Sakai https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.891422

Short summary

The Glacier Area Mapping for Discharge from the Asian Mountains (GAMDAM) glacier inventory was updated to revise the underestimated glacier area in the first version. The total number and area of glaciers are 134 770 and 100 693 ± 11 790 km² from 453 Landsat images, which were carefully selected for the period from 1990 to 2010, to avoid mountain shadow, cloud cover, and seasonal snow cover.