Rapidly changing lake-terminating glaciers in High Mountain Asia: a dataset from 1990 to 2022

Luo, Yunyi; Liu, Qiao; Lu, Xueyuan; Yin, Yongsheng; Yang, Jiawei; Lu, Xuyang

doi:10.5194/essd-18-1503-2026

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Rapidly changing lake-terminating glaciers in High Mountain Asia: a dataset from 1990 to 2022

Yunyi Luo, Qiao Liu, Xueyuan Lu, Yongsheng Yin, Jiawei Yang, and Xuyang Lu

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