Recent glacier and lake changes in High Mountain Asia and their relation to precipitation changes

Treichler, Désirée; Kääb, Andreas; Salzmann, Nadine; Xu, Chong-Yu

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2977-2019

Articles | Volume 13, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2977-2019

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2977-2019

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

Articles | Volume 13, issue 11

Research article

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13 Nov 2019

Research article |

| 13 Nov 2019

Recent glacier and lake changes in High Mountain Asia and their relation to precipitation changes

Désirée Treichler, Andreas Kääb, Nadine Salzmann, and Chong-Yu Xu

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 24 Jan 2019
- AC1: 'Author's response to the reviewer comments', Désirée Treichler, 15 Apr 2019
RC2: 'Review of Treichler et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 03 Feb 2019

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AR by Désirée Treichler on behalf of the Authors (14 May 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (31 May 2019) by Bert Wouters

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (06 Jun 2019) by Bert Wouters

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (28 Jun 2019)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (08 Aug 2019) by Bert Wouters

AR by Désirée Treichler on behalf of the Authors (16 Aug 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (05 Sep 2019) by Bert Wouters

AR by Désirée Treichler on behalf of the Authors (13 Sep 2019) Manuscript

Short summary

Glacier growth such as that found on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) is counterintuitive in a warming world. Climate models and meteorological data are conflicting about the reasons for this glacier anomaly. We quantify the glacier changes in High Mountain Asia using satellite laser altimetry as well as the growth of over 1300 inland lakes on the TP. Our study suggests that increased summer precipitation is likely the largest contributor to the recently observed increases in glacier and lake masses.