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