Progressive Hypsometry and the glacial limitation of tropical mountain ranges

Analyses

Revealing glacial limitation of tropical mountain ranges

Mountain range DEMs are constructed from 1-arcsecond SRTM digital topography, which are available in 1° latitude x 1° longitude tiles. These tiles are mosaicked together to make the DEMs you see below. The color ramp for each DEM is pastel BYG from 0 to 500 m ASL, then GYR from 500 m - 3400 m ASL. The color ramp switches to dark blue-through-light blue from 3400-4500 m, representing the typical range of tropical snowlines (glacial equilibirum altitude, ELA). Area above the ELA band is white.

Leuser Range, Aceh, Indonesia

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Central Range, Taiwan

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Talamanca Range, Costa Rica

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Crocker Range, Borneo

Borneo_DEM_BoundingBox_BlueGlacialZone_Grid Supercatchment9_hBench_vs_hChange

Finisterre Range, Papua New Guinea

Finisterres_DEM_BoundingBox_BlueGlacialZone_Grid Supercatchment9_hBench_vs_hChange

Owen Stanley Range, Papua New Guinea

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Merauke Range, Papua

Merauke_DEM_BoundingBox_BlueGlacialZone_Grid Supercatchment9_hBench_vs_hChange

Mérida Range, Venezuela

Merida_DEM_BoundingBox_BlueGlacialZone_Grid Supercatchment9_hBench_vs_hChange

Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia

SantaMarta_DEM_BoundingBox_BlueGlacialZone_Grid Supercatchment9_hBench_vs_hChange

Rwenzori, East Africa

Rwenzori_DEM_BoundingBox_BlueGlacialZone_Grid Supercatchment9_hBench_vs_hChange