Temporal inventory of glaciers in the Suru sub-basin, western Himalaya: impacts of  regional climate variability

Shukla, Aparna; Garg, Siddhi; Mehta, Manish; Kumar, Vinit; Shukla, Uma Kant

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1245-2020

Articles | Volume 12, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1245-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1245-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 2

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05 Jun 2020

Data description paper |

| 05 Jun 2020

Temporal inventory of glaciers in the Suru sub-basin, western Himalaya: impacts of regional climate variability

Aparna Shukla, Siddhi Garg, Manish Mehta, Vinit Kumar, and Uma Kant Shukla

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 25 Sep 2019
- AC1: 'Response to the comments on "Temporal inventory of glaciers in the Suru sub-basin, western Himalaya: Impacts of the regional climate variability" by Shukla et al., 2019', Aparna Shukla, 10 Dec 2019
RC2: 'Report on Manuscript by Shukla et al. (essd-2019-122)', Anonymous Referee #2, 17 Nov 2019
- AC2: 'Response to the comments on "Temporal inventory of glaciers in the Suru sub-basin, western Himalaya: Impacts of the regional climate variability" by Shukla et al., 2019', Aparna Shukla, 18 Dec 2019

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AR by Anna Wenzel on behalf of the Authors (21 Jan 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (30 Jan 2020) by Prasad Gogineni

AR by Anna Mirena Feist-Polner on behalf of the Authors (11 Feb 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (20 Apr 2020) by Prasad Gogineni

Short summary

This research presents an updated glacier inventory (2017) of the Suru sub-basin, western Himalaya, India, which is useful for glacier-modelling studies. Glaciers here occur in two major Himalayan ranges: the Ladakh Range and the Greater Himalayan Range (GHR). Temporal glacier changes (46 years) suggest an overall degenerating pattern and a transitional response between the Karakoram and GHR glaciers. Local climate variability and unique topography induce heterogeneity in glacier response.