Towards understanding the pattern of glacier mass balances  in High Mountain Asia using regional climatic modelling

de Kok, Remco J.; Kraaijenbrink, Philip D. A.; Tuinenburg, Obbe A.; Bonekamp, Pleun N. J.; Immerzeel, Walter W.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3215-2020

Articles | Volume 14, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3215-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3215-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 9

Research article

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24 Sep 2020

Research article |

| 24 Sep 2020

Towards understanding the pattern of glacier mass balances in High Mountain Asia using regional climatic modelling

Remco J. de Kok, Philip D. A. Kraaijenbrink, Obbe A. Tuinenburg, Pleun N. J. Bonekamp, and Walter W. Immerzeel

Data sets

Replication Data for: Snowfall increase counters glacier demise in Kunlun Shan and Karakoram R. J. de Kok, P. D. A. Kraaijenbrink, O. A. Tuinenburg, P. N. J. Bonekamp, and W. W. Immerzeel https://doi.org/10.34894/YKM4LQ

Short summary

Glaciers worldwide are shrinking, yet glaciers in parts of High Mountain Asia are growing. Using models of the regional climate and glacier growth, we reproduce the observed patterns of glacier growth and shrinkage in High Mountain Asia of the last decades. Increases in snow, in part from water that comes from lowland agriculture, have probably been more important than changes in temperature to explain the growing glaciers. We now better understand changes in the crucial mountain water cycle.