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Articles | Volume 13, issue 11
Articles | Volume 13, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2977-2019
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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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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.
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