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Affiliations

• ¹ Mountain Science Data Center, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610299, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China. Electronic address: nieyong@imde.ac.cn.
• ² Mountain Science Data Center, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610299, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China.
• ³ British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK. Electronic address: hprit@bas.ac.uk.
• ⁴ School of Geography and water@leeds, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.
• ⁵ Mountain Science Data Center, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610299, China; Gilgit-Baltistan Disaster Management Authority, Gilgit 15100, Pakistan.
• ⁶ Department of Geography, University of Zürich, Zürich 8057, Switzerland.
• ⁷ College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China.
• ⁸ Mountain Science Data Center, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610299, China.
• ⁹ Department of Geography and Geospatial Sciences, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA.
• ¹⁰ Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China.