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Annual 30 m dataset for glacial lakes in High Mountain Asia from 2008 to 2017
Fang Chen
Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Aerospace Information Research
Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 9 Dengzhuang South Road, Beijing
100094, China
State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information
Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 9 Dengzhuang South
Road, Beijing 100094, China
Hainan Key Laboratory of Earth Observation, Aerospace Information
Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya 572029, China
Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Aerospace Information Research
Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 9 Dengzhuang South Road, Beijing
100094, China
Huadong Guo
Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Aerospace Information Research
Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 9 Dengzhuang South Road, Beijing
100094, China
State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information
Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 9 Dengzhuang South
Road, Beijing 100094, China
Hainan Key Laboratory of Earth Observation, Aerospace Information
Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya 572029, China
Simon Allen
Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, 8057,
Switzerland
Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva,
1205, Switzerland
Jeffrey S. Kargel
The Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Arizona 85719, USA
Umesh K. Haritashya
Department of Geology, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio 45469, USA
C. Scott Watson
Department of Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences, University of
Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
COMET, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds,
LS2 9JT, UK
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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.
We developed a 30 m dataset to characterize the annual coverage of glacial lakes in High...
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