Annual 30&thinsp;m dataset for glacial lakes in High Mountain Asia from 2008 to 2017

Chen, Fang; Zhang, Meimei; Guo, Huadong; Allen, Simon; Kargel, Jeffrey S.; Haritashya, Umesh K.; Watson, C. Scott

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-741-2021

Articles | Volume 13, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-741-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-741-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 2

Data description paper

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02 Mar 2021

Data description paper |

| 02 Mar 2021

Annual 30 m dataset for glacial lakes in High Mountain Asia from 2008 to 2017

Fang Chen, Meimei Zhang, Huadong Guo, Simon Allen, Jeffrey S. Kargel, Umesh K. Haritashya, and C. Scott Watson

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RC1: 'Review for manuscript 'essd-2020-57' by Chen et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 18 Jun 2020
- AC1: 'Response to Anonymous Referee #1', Meimei Zhang, 30 Sep 2020
RC2: 'major revisions', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 Jun 2020
- AC2: 'Response to Anonymous Referee #2', Meimei Zhang, 30 Sep 2020

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AR by Meimei Zhang on behalf of the Authors (30 Sep 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (08 Nov 2020) by Birgit Heim

Dear Authors and Colleagues

Thank you for your contributions
Thanks for the authors for the replies to the reviews of your paper and for the revision.

The published time series on Glacial Lakes in High Mountain Asia is of importance. The manuscript, the data description and data publication do not yet fulfill the requirements of ESSD and improvements are needed. A major revision of the manuscript and a minor revision of the dataset is needed.
First, the manuscript requires editing by a professional English language editing service.
SRTM, SLC, GAMDAM and many more acronyms are not introduced. Introduce every acronym before using it in the text. The first time you use the term, put the acronym in parentheses after the full term. Please upload the revised version of your manuscript with track changes included.

Please also optimize the data set abstract in zenodo, please include data sources and methods in the abstract. Please also include data sources and methods in the data description document. Please add the overview on the dBASE table in the overview text, please spell out abbreviations, e.g. GL_type in the table caption. Please add your ORCID in the data description document.

ESSD policy requires the re-usability of the published data sets using open source: Please list open-source GIS software in the list of software. Using open source GIS software, e.g. QGIS, the CRS of Glacial Lakes in High Mountain Asia is not readily recognized, eventually because it is no standard projection. Could you check back with spatialreference.org, eventually change your prj file.
e.g. https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/10/2275/2018/essd-10-2275-2018.pdf Carlson and Oda put the example of QGIS-compatible shapefiles.

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Short summary

We developed a 30 m dataset to characterize the annual coverage of glacial lakes in High Mountain Asia (HMA) from 2008 to 2017. Our results show that proglacial lakes are a main contributor to recent lake evolution in HMA, accounting for 62.87 % (56.67 km²) of the total area increase. Regional geographic variability of debris cover, together with trends in warming and precipitation over the past few decades, largely explains the current distribution of supra- and proglacial lake area.