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Articles | Volume 17, issue 12
Articles | Volume 17, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-5435-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-5435-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 17, issue 12
Research article
 | 
20 Dec 2023
Research article |  | 20 Dec 2023

Annual to seasonal glacier mass balance in High Mountain Asia derived from Pléiades stereo images: examples from the Pamir and the Tibetan Plateau

Daniel Falaschi, Atanu Bhattacharya, Gregoire Guillet, Lei Huang, Owen King, Kriti Mukherjee, Philipp Rastner, Tandong Yao, and Tobias Bolch

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-5435-2023-supplement

Data sets

Glacier elevation changes data in the High Mountain Asia derived from multi-temporal digital elevation models since the 1960s Atanu Bhattacharya et al. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.933924

Earth Explorer U.S. Geological Survey https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/

Accelerated global glacier mass loss in the early twenty-first century - Dataset R. Hugonnet et al. https://doi.org/10.6096/13

ERA5-Land hourly data from 1950 to present J. Muñoz Sabater https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.e2161bac

2020-2022-glacier-elevation-change-data-in-Muztag-Ata-and-Western-Nyainqentanglha-from-Pleiades-DEMs D. Falaschi et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10392969

Model code and software

NeoGeographyToolkit/StereoPipeline: 2023-11-30-daily-build (2023-11-30-daily-build) O. Alexandrov et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10239162

Co-registration and bias corrections of satellite elevation data sets for quantifying glacier thickness change (https://github.com/GlacioHack/GeoUtils) C. Nuth and A. Kääb https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-5-271-2011

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Short summary
Because glaciers are crucial freshwater sources in the lowlands surrounding High Mountain Asia, constraining short-term glacier mass changes is essential. We investigate the potential of state-of-the-art satellite elevation data to measure glacier mass changes in two selected regions. The results demonstrate the ability of our dataset to characterize glacier changes of different magnitudes, allowing for an increase in the number of inaccessible glaciers that can be readily monitored.
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