DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3346675
title: Supplementary data: Impact of a global temperature rise of 1.5 degrees Celsius on Asia's glaciers

description: Supplementary data to <em>Kraaijenbrink, Bierkens, Lutz and Immerzeel, 2017. Impact of a global temperature rise of 1.5 degrees Celsius on Asia’s glaciers, Nature.</em> Model code can be found here. Please note that all data is provided in 7z-archives. To extract the data use the open source software 7zip. <strong>Model input: </strong>Raster data The raster data that is required to run the model is available for the entire High Mountain Asia (<em>complete-hma.7z</em>) and for each RGI v5.0 sub-region (&lt;<em>region-name&gt;.7z</em>). The 7z-archives hold separate folders for each glacier, which are named by RGI glacier ID. The rasters for each glacier are in GeoTIFF format, have a 30 m resolution, are in local UTM projection (WGS84 datum), and are clipped to the RGI glacier extent. Rasters present for each glacier are: <pre>classification.tif The debris classification made in google earth engine. debris-thickness-50cm.tif Debris thickness estimation based on Landsat 8 surface temperature. ice-thickness.tif Ice thickness determined using the Glabtop2 model ls8-composite-b456.tif Landsat 8 warmest-pixel optical composite (bands RED, NIR, SWIR1) ls8-composite-tsurf.tif Landsat 8 warmest-pixel surface temperature composite srtm-elevation.tif SRTM 1 arc second elevation data srtm-slope.tif Slope of the SRTM 1 arc second data</pre> <strong>Model input: </strong>RDS data The general model input data (<em>mbg-model-rds-data.7z)</em> is stored in R’s binary RDS format and <em>R</em> is required to open and read the data. Files present in the 7z-archive are: <pre>dP_factors_2006-2100.rds Precipitation changes (delta factors) up to 2100 dT_degrees_2006-2100.rds Temperature changes (Kelvin) up to 2100 glacier-data.rds Glacier centroids with current climate and mass balance input ostrem_meancurve.rds The Östrem curve used by the model rgi-subregions.rds RGI sub-region polygons for Asia</pre> <strong>Output data</strong> Region-aggregated output is available in ESRI Shapefile format for the RGI sub-regions, major river basins, and for a 1×1 degree grid (<em>output-shapefiles.7z</em>). The attribute tables of all shapefiles hold data on the occurrence of debris as well as current glacier area and volume, and volume projections for the end of century. The available shapefile attributes are: <pre>count number of glaciers a_total total glacier area (m2) a_debris glacier area covered by debris (m2) a_ela glacier area below modelled ELA (m2) a_ela_deb glacier area below modelled ELA covered by debris (m2) v_total total glacier volume (m3) v_debris glacier volume covered by debris (m3) v_ela glacier volume below modelled ELA (m3) v_ela_deb glacier volume below modelled ELA covered by debris (m3) m_total_gt total glacier mass (gigaton) volST_EOC volume remaining in end of century under a stable current temperature vol15_EOC volume remaining in end of century under 1.5 degree scenario vol26_EOC volume remaining in end of century for the RCP2.6 model ensemble vol45_EOC volume remaining in end of century for the RCP4.5 model ensemble vol60_EOC volume remaining in end of century for the RCP6.0 model ensemble vol85_EOC volume remaining in end of century for the RCP8.5 model ensemble</pre>