0e39f693-fbfe-4b4a-aebc-55aec7de7657 eng Sher Muhammad ICIMOD RS Specialist 977-1-5275222 977-1-5275238 Nepal sher.muhammad@icimod.org 2026-01-29T09:28:45 North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 Debris cover glacier melt in the Karakoram during 2021 2022-07-12 Sher Muhammad ICIMOD RS Specialist 977-1-5275222 sher.muhammad@icimod.org ICIMOD. (2022). Debris cover glacier melt in the Karakoram during 2021 [Data set]. ICIMOD. https://doi.org/10.26066/RDS.1973179 The assessment of meltwater sourcing from the clean and debris-covered glaciers is scarce in High Mountain Asia (HMA). The melting rate varies with the debris cover thickness and glacier orientation. The present study quantifies glacier melting rate attributed to varying thickness of debris cover in the Karakoram. We observed the melting rates by installing ablation stakes on Hinarchi and Sachen glaciers over debris-free and debris-covered ice during a field expedition. The stakes were installed on clean ice and glacier surface with debris cover thickness ranges between 0.5 and 2 cm at selected experimental sites between 2700 and 3100 m a.s.l. during July 2021. The data provides melting of glaciers under various debris cover observed in this study to assess the critical debris thickness enhancing and insulating glacial melt in the Himalaya and the Karakoram (Hinarchi and Sachen), measured at selected test sites between 2700 and 3100 m a.s.l. Debris cover melt rates Glaciers Karakoram UIB Pakistan Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) eng geoscientificInformation 74.56 74.93 35.32 36.10 2021-07-07 2021-07-26 ICIMOD 977-1-5275222 metadata@icimod.org