Fig 1.
Location and topography of Muztag Ata and Kongur Tagh.
Table 1.
List of Muztag Ata and Konggur Tagh datasets.
Table 2.
Glacier areas covered by DEMs for mass change investigation.
Table 3.
Statistics of original and adjusted vertical errors of the three DEMs.
Table 4.
Glacier area (A) and changes at Muztag Ata and Kongur Tagh for selected glaciers with mass-balance estimates, and for all glaciers of the study site.
Table 5.
Glacier volume and mass changes during the investigated periods in MAKT
Fig 2.
Elevation difference of glaciers in MAKT.
(a) Elevation difference between TOPO DEM (1971/6) and SRTM (1999); (b) Elevation difference between SRTM (1999) and ASTER (2013/14); (c) Elevation difference between TOPO DEM (1971/6) and ASTER (2013/14).
Fig 3.
(a) Altitudinal distribution of the mean annual ice mass changes average at 50 m elevation bands for the clean-ice (blue) and the debris-covered (red) parts during 1971/76–2013/14; (b) Hypsometry of the glacier area in 2014 at MAKT.