Inventory and changes of rock glacier creep speeds in Ile Alatau and Kungöy Ala-Too, northern Tien Shan, since the 1950s

Kääb, Andreas; Strozzi, Tazio; Bolch, Tobias; Caduff, Rafael; Trefall, Håkon; Stoffel, Markus; Kokarev, Alexander

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-927-2021

Articles | Volume 15, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-927-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-927-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 2

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24 Feb 2021

Research article |

| 24 Feb 2021

Inventory and changes of rock glacier creep speeds in Ile Alatau and Kungöy Ala-Too, northern Tien Shan, since the 1950s

Andreas Kääb, Tazio Strozzi, Tobias Bolch, Rafael Caduff, Håkon Trefall, Markus Stoffel, and Alexander Kokarev

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RC1: 'Interactive comment on “Inventory, motion and acceleration of rock glaciers in Ile Alatau and Kungöy Ala-Too, northern Tien Shan, since the 1950s” by Andreas Kääb et al.', Alessandro Cicoira, 25 Aug 2020
- AC1: 'Response to referees 1-3', Andreas Kääb, 11 Dec 2020
RC2: 'Comment on the paper « Inventory, motion and acceleration of rock glaciers in Ile Alatau and Kungöy Ala-Too, northern Toen Shan, since the 1950s.', Philippe Schoeneich, 28 Sep 2020
- AC1: 'Response to referees 1-3', Andreas Kääb, 11 Dec 2020
RC3: 'Review Kääb et al. 2020', Line Rouyet, 02 Oct 2020
- AC1: 'Response to referees 1-3', Andreas Kääb, 11 Dec 2020

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ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (15 Dec 2020) by Jürg Schweizer

AR by Andreas Kääb on behalf of the Authors (01 Jan 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (08 Jan 2021) by Jürg Schweizer

Short summary

We present a map of rock glacier motion over parts of the northern Tien Shan and time series of surface speed for six of them over almost 70 years. This is by far the most detailed investigation of this kind available for central Asia. We detect a 2- to 4-fold increase in rock glacier motion between the 1950s and present, which we attribute to atmospheric warming. Relative to the shrinking glaciers in the region, this implies increased importance of periglacial sediment transport.