Articles | Volume 17, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-1343-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-1343-2023
Research article
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28 Mar 2023
Research article |  | 28 Mar 2023

Central Asia's spatiotemporal glacier response ambiguity due to data inconsistencies and regional simplifications

Martina Barandun and Eric Pohl

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Short summary
Meteorological and glacier mass balance data scarcity introduces large uncertainties about drivers of heterogeneous glacier mass balance response in Central Asia. We investigate the consistency of interpretations derived from various datasets through a systematic correlation analysis between climatic and static drivers with mass balance estimates. Our results show in particular that even supposedly similar datasets lead to different and partly contradicting assumptions on dominant drivers.