Spatial patterns in glacier characteristics and area changes from 1962 to 2006 in the Kanchenjunga–Sikkim area, eastern Himalaya

Racoviteanu, A. E.; Arnaud, Y.; Williams, M. W.; Manley, W. F.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-505-2015

Articles | Volume 9, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-505-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-505-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 2

Research article

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16 Mar 2015

Research article |

| 16 Mar 2015

Spatial patterns in glacier characteristics and area changes from 1962 to 2006 in the Kanchenjunga–Sikkim area, eastern Himalaya

A. E. Racoviteanu, Y. Arnaud, M. W. Williams, and W. F. Manley

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Final revised paper (published on 16 Mar 2015)
Preprint (discussion started on 18 Jul 2014)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC C1715: 'Spatial patterns in glacier area and elevation changes from 1962 to 2006 in the monsoon-influenced eastern Himalaya', Anonymous Referee #1, 04 Sep 2014
- AC C2620: 'Reply to Reviewer #1', Adina Racoviteanu, 10 Dec 2014
  - AC C2624: 'pdf format', Adina Racoviteanu, 10 Dec 2014
RC C1787: ''Referee Comment'', Damodar Lamsal, 12 Sep 2014
- AC C2621: 'Reply to Reviewer #2', Adina Racoviteanu, 10 Dec 2014
SC C1814: 'Some short remarks', David Loibl, 17 Sep 2014
- AC C2622: 'reply to D. Loibl's comments', Adina Racoviteanu, 10 Dec 2014
SC C1839: 'Spatial patterns in glacier area and elevation changes from 1962 to 2006 in the eastern Himalaya', Mauri Pelto, 20 Sep 2014
- AC C2623: 'reply to M.Pelto's comments', Adina Racoviteanu, 10 Dec 2014

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Adina E. Racoviteanu on behalf of the Authors (10 Dec 2014) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (12 Dec 2014) by Tobias Bolch

RR by Damodar Lamsal (27 Dec 2014)

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (08 Jan 2015) by Tobias Bolch

AR by Adina E. Racoviteanu on behalf of the Authors (29 Jan 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (04 Feb 2015) by Tobias Bolch

RR by Damodar Lamsal (19 Feb 2015)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (23 Feb 2015) by Tobias Bolch

AR by Adina E. Racoviteanu on behalf of the Authors (25 Feb 2015) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

An overall negative glacier surface area change of 0.5±0.2% yr-1 was observed for the eastern Himalaya since 1962 based on remote sensing data. There were higher rates of area loss for clean glaciers (-34%, or -0.7% yr-1) compared to debris-covered glaciers (-14.3% or -0.3 yr-1) on a glacier-by-glacier basis. Patterns of area change are heterogenous and depend on topographic and climatic factors, glacier altitude (maximum, median, altitudinal range), glacier size, slope and aspect.