Articles | Volume 9, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-849-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-849-2015
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06 May 2015
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The GAMDAM glacier inventory: a quality-controlled inventory of Asian glaciers

T. Nuimura, A. Sakai, K. Taniguchi, H. Nagai, D. Lamsal, S. Tsutaki, A. Kozawa, Y. Hoshina, S. Takenaka, S. Omiya, K. Tsunematsu, P. Tshering, and K. Fujita

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AR by Takayuki Nuimura on behalf of the Authors (09 Jan 2015)  Author's response 
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (14 Jan 2015) by Tobias Bolch
RR by J. Graham Cogley (29 Jan 2015)
RR by Frank Paul (09 Feb 2015)
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (23 Feb 2015) by Tobias Bolch
AR by Takayuki Nuimura on behalf of the Authors (16 Mar 2015)  Author's response   Manuscript 
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (25 Mar 2015) by Tobias Bolch
AR by Takayuki Nuimura on behalf of the Authors (09 Apr 2015)  Author's response   Manuscript 
ED: Publish as is (09 Apr 2015) by Tobias Bolch
AR by Takayuki Nuimura on behalf of the Authors (09 Apr 2015)
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We present a new glacier inventory for high-mountain Asia named “Glacier Area Mapping for Discharge from the Asian Mountains” (GAMDAM). Glacier outlines were delineated manually using 356 Landsat ETM+ scenes in 226 path-row sets from the period 1999–2003, in conjunction with a digital elevation model and high-resolution Google EarthTM imagery. Our GAMDAM Glacier Inventory includes 87,084 glaciers covering a total area of 91,263 ± 13,689 km2 throughout high-mountain Asia.