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Articles | Volume 15, issue 7
Articles | Volume 15, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-2841-2023
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Articles | Volume 15, issue 7
Data description paper
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11 Jul 2023
Data description paper |  | 11 Jul 2023

A new inventory of High Mountain Asia surging glaciers derived from multiple elevation datasets since the 1970s

Lei Guo, Jia Li, Amaury Dehecq, Zhiwei Li, Xin Li, and Jianjun Zhu

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We established a new inventory of surging glaciers across High Mountain Asia based on glacier elevation changes and morphological changes during 1970s–2020. A total of 890 surging and 336 probably or possibly surging glaciers were identified. Compared to the most recent inventory, this one incorporates 253 previously unidentified surging glaciers. Our results demonstrate a more widespread surge behavior in HMA and find that surging glaciers are prone to have steeper slopes than non-surging ones.
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