The melting observation of Hengduan Moutain glacier is mainly carried out on Hailuogou Glacier on the east slope of Gongga and the large and small Gongba glacier on the west slope of Gongga. In addition, some ablation observations have been made on Baishui 1 glacier on the east slope of Yulong. According to the melting observation of the four glaciers in the above two mountains, there are some regional representativeness, which makes them reflect the basic situation of melting glaciers in Hengduan Mountain. This data set records the glacier ablation data of different time and different places: from June to August 1982, the Glacier No. 1 in Baishui on the east slope of Yulong mountain was observed at the altitude of 4200m, 4600m and 4800m. From August 27, 1982 to the end of August 1983, the annual measured data of different heights of Hailuogou Glacier tongue on the east slope of Gongga Mountain were collected. From July 12, 1982 to August 6, 1983, the observation data of Gongba glacier melting on the west slope of Gongga Mountain were recorded.

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The data are stored in the form of xlsx, which can be viewed and edited by Excel software in Microsoft office. Four workbooks are included, which are the melting status of Baishui No.1 glacier on the east slope of Yulong, the melting values of Hailuogou Glacier from 1982 to 1983, the melting values of Gongba glacier from 1982 to 1983, and the melting data of xiaogongba glacier from June 29 to August 21, 1982. The altitude, ablation depth and ablation rate of the four regions are described in detail in the table.

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Li, J. (2021). Glacier ablation data set of Hengduan Moutain (1982-1983). A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles, DOI: 10.11888/Glacio.tpdc.271218. CSTR: 18406.11.Glacio.tpdc.271218. (Download the reference： RIS | Bibtex )

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