Tobias Bolch¹, Dr. Simon Allen², Owen King³, Atanu Bhattacharya³, Guoqing Zhang⁴ and Tandong Yao⁵, (1)University of St Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable development, St Andrews, United Kingdom, (2)University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom, (4)Inst. of Tibetan Plateau Resea, Beijing, China, (5)Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China