Reconstructed, Long-Term Meteorological Forcing and Mass Balance over Glaciers in High Mountain Asia

%%%% Reconstructed_WRF_Forcing_HMA.mat %%%%%%%% A reconstructed, long-term data series of meteorological data for three glaciers in distinct regions of High Mountain Asia. The meteorological forcing consists of hourly Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) data bias-corrected by high elevation, off-glacier automatic weather station (AWS) data. The variables of the forcing data consist of 2m air temperature ('T' °C), relative humidity ('RH' %), air pressure ('PRESS' hPa), incoming shortwave ('SWIN' Wm-2) and longwave ('LWIN' Wm-2) radiation, precipitation ('PP', mm hr) and wind speed ('FF' m s-1). The period of the timeseries ranges from January 1981 to December 2019. Data are available for the following glaciers (bias-corrected to the given coordinates / elevation of the off-glacier AWS) Yala Glacier, Nepal (28.237°N 85.619°E, 5090 m a.s.l.) - 'AWS Yala Basecamp' (AWS Data available on the ICIMOD RDS) Parlung Glacier Number 4 (29.245°N 96.928°E, 4600 m a.s.l.) - 'AWS4600' (Contact author Wei Yang for AWS data requests) Mugagangqiong Glacier (32.234°N, 87.485°E, 5850 m a.s.l.) - 'AWS5850' (Contact author Wei Yang for AWS data requests) Data are stored as matlab tables in .mat files. Data were created using Matlab version 2020b. %%%% Reconstructed_Mass_Balance_HMA.mat %%%%%%%% Reconstructed cumulative mass balances for the aforementioned glaciers (values in m w.e.)