1.Glacial lake inventory of High Mountain Asia

The dataset integrated glacier inventory data and 426 Landsat TM/ETM+/OLI images, and adopted manual visual interpretation to extract glacial lake boundaries within a 10-km buffer from glacier terminals using ArcGIS and ENVI software, normalized difference water index maps, and Google Earth images. It was established that 26,089 and 28,953 glacial lakes in HMA, with sizes of 0.0054–5.83 km2, covered a combined area of 1692.74 ± 231.44 and 1955.94 ± 259.68 km2 in 1990 and 2018, respectively. The current glacial lake inventory provided fundamental data for water resource evaluation, assessment of glacial lake outburst floods, and glacier hydrology studies in the mountain cryosphere region.

WANG Xin, GUO Xiaoyu, YANG Chengde, LIU Qionghuan, WEI Junfeng, ZHANG Yong, LIU Shiyin, ZHANG Yanlin, JIANG Zongli, TANG Zhiguang

doi: 10.11888/Glacio.tpdc.270919 2223 141 开放获取 2019-12-31