Climate regime of Asian glaciers revealed by GAMDAM glacier inventory

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Sakai, A., Nuimura, T., Fujita, K., Takenaka, S., Nagai, H., Lamsal, D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2015
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Ela; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-865-2015; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00016649; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00016604/tc-9-865-2015.pdf; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/9/865/2015/tc-9-865-2015.pdf

Among meteorological elements, precipitation has a large spatial variability and less observation, particularly in high-mountain Asia, although precipitation in mountains is an important parameter for hydrological circulation. We estimated precipitation contributing to glacier mass at the median ele...