A consistent glacier inventory for Karakoram and Pamir derived from Landsat data: distribution of debris cover and mapping challenges

Mölg, Nico; Bolch, Tobias; Rastner, Philipp; Strozzi, Tazio; Paul, Frank

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1807-2018

Articles | Volume 10, issue 4

Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 1807–1827, 2018

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1807-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 1807–1827, 2018

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1807-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 4

10 Oct 2018

A consistent glacier inventory for Karakoram and Pamir derived from Landsat data: distribution of debris cover and mapping challenges

Nico Mölg et al.

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RC1: 'Comments on "A CONSISTENT GLACIER INVENTORY FOR THE KARAKORAM AND PAMIR REGION DERIVED FROM LANDSAT DATA: DISTRIBUTION OF DEBRIS COVER AND MAPPING CHALLENGES"', Anonymous Referee #1, 03 May 2018
RC2: 'Mölg, N. et al., A consistent glacier inventory for the Karakoram and Pamir region derived from Landsat data: distribution of debris cover and mapping challenges', J. Graham Cogley, 15 May 2018
AC1: 'Authors' reply to Reviewer's comments', Nico Mölg, 04 Jul 2018

Short summary

Knowledge about the size and location of glaciers is essential to understand impacts of climatic changes on the natural environment. Therefore, we have produced an inventory of all glaciers in some of the largest glacierized mountain regions worldwide. Many large glaciers are covered by a rock (debris) layer, which also changes their reaction to climatic changes. Thus, we have also mapped this debris layer for all glaciers. We have mapped almost 28000 glaciers covering ~35000 km².