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Asia's glacier changes

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Mass changes in High Mountain Asia's glaciers have been under dispute for almost a decade. An analysis of satellite data archives provides an observation-based mass budget for every single glacier in the region.

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Figure 1: Glaciers of the Teskey Ala-Too mountain range, Kyrgyzstan, mirrored in an unnamed lake.

DANIEL FARINOTTI

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  1. Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW) of ETH Zurich, Hönggerbergring 26, Zürich, CH-8093, Switzerland

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  2. Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, Birmensdorf, CH-8903, Switzerland

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Farinotti, D. Asia's glacier changes. Nature Geosci 10, 621–622 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2995

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