Accelerating High Mountain Asia Glacier Loss From ICESat and ICESat-2 (opens in new tab)

Communities dependent on snow and ice melt need to face escalating challenges due to glacier depletion, particularly in High Mountain Asia (HMA). Understanding glacier changes is thus crucial for addressing these impacts. Employing Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) and ICESat-2, we estimate glacier mass balance from 2003 to 2023 using three independent geodetic methods to reduce methodological biases. We find an acceleration in ice loss from <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://w...