Glacial lake inventory (1990, 2000, 2010, 2015, and 2020) in the greater Himalaya

This data set includes the glacial lake inventories in 1990, 2000, 2010, 2015, and 2020: Source: Information of Landsat data used including Path, Row, Sense, Date Date: Date of Landsat acquired Area: Area of glacial lake, with unit of km^2 Region: Hindu Kush, Karakoram, Western Himalaya, Central Himalaya, Eastern Himalaya, Nyainqêntanglha, Hengduan Shan Type: Pro-glacial lakes, Unconnected glacial lake, Supraglacial lake Error: Area uncertainty of glacial lake with unit of km^2 Perimeter: Perimeter of glacial lake with unit of m Elevation: Surface elevation of glacial lake (m a.s.l.) MG_ID1: RGI ID of parent glacier that glacial lake contacted MG_ID2: RGI ID of parent glacier that glacial lake contacted Not_RGI: Parent glacier does not exist in the RGI inventory NewPro: New formed proglacial lake Plese cite as: Zhang, G., T. Bolch, T. Yao, D. R. Rounce, W. Chen, G. Veh, O. King, S. K. Allen, M. Wang, and W. Wang (2023), Underestimated mass loss from lake-terminating glaciers in the greater Himalaya, Nature Geoscience, doi: 10.1038/s41561-023-01150-1