Articles | Volume 16, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-3775-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-3775-2022
Research article
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22 Sep 2022
Research article |  | 22 Sep 2022

An 11-year record of wintertime snow-surface energy balance and sublimation at 4863 m a.s.l. on the Chhota Shigri Glacier moraine (western Himalaya, India)

Arindan Mandal, Thupstan Angchuk, Mohd Farooq Azam, Alagappan Ramanathan, Patrick Wagnon, Mohd Soheb, and Chetan Singh

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Interactive discussion

Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • CC1: 'Comment on tc-2021-386', Suryanarayanan Balasubramanian, 27 Jan 2022
  • RC1: 'Comment on tc-2021-386', Anonymous Referee #1, 15 Feb 2022
    • AC2: 'Response to Reviewer 1', Arindan Mandal, 03 Jun 2022
  • RC2: 'Comment on tc-2021-386', Anonymous Referee #2, 23 Feb 2022
    • AC3: 'Response to Reviewer 2', Arindan Mandal, 03 Jun 2022

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision | EF: Editorial file upload
ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by editor and referees) (08 Jun 2022) by Masashi Niwano
AR by Arindan Mandal on behalf of the Authors (09 Jul 2022)  Author's response   Author's tracked changes   Manuscript 
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (14 Jul 2022) by Masashi Niwano
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (26 Jul 2022)
RR by Jakob F. Steiner (30 Jul 2022)
ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (03 Aug 2022) by Masashi Niwano
AR by Arindan Mandal on behalf of the Authors (08 Aug 2022)  Author's response   Author's tracked changes   Manuscript 
ED: Publish as is (18 Aug 2022) by Masashi Niwano
AR by Arindan Mandal on behalf of the Authors (18 Aug 2022)  Manuscript 
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Short summary
Snow sublimation is an important component of glacier surface mass balance; however, it is seldom studied in detail in the Himalayan region owing to data scarcity. We present an 11-year record of wintertime snow-surface energy balance and sublimation characteristics at the Chhota Shigri Glacier moraine site at 4863 m a.s.l. The estimated winter sublimation is 16 %–42 % of the winter snowfall at the study site, which signifies how sublimation is important in the Himalayan region.