Response to referee comments 1 High Mountain Asia glacier elevation trends 2003 – 2008 , 2 lake volume changes 1990 – 2015 , and their relation to 3 precipitation changes

It is better to discuss topic-by-topic in a coherent manner. DONE 541 P1, L13: “Considering evaporation loss, ... ”. What do you mean? It sounds like you are not 542 considering it here since you talk about “average annual precipitation”. Please clarify. 543 Changed to “taking into account” 544 P1, L16: Unclear what is meant by “geometry changes”. Remove or explain. DONE 545 P1, L18: Should be past tense, like the rest of the abstract, since it refers to a distinct period (2003546 2008). Please check this elsewhere too although it is not a big issue. DONE 547 P2, L2: Or the “Pamir-Karakoram anomaly” as suggested by Gardelle et al. (2013) CHANGED 548 P2, L8: reduced/decreased evaporation (for consistency) DONE 549 P2, L15-19: Some of these studies are not region-wide for HMA, but rather HKKH or Tibet only. That 550 makes this study even more relevant (which could be highlighted). DONE 551 P2, L29: Any reference(s) for the last two issues? 552 Brun et al (2017) themselves mention problems due to too much noise for time periods 553 shorter than a decade as well as the issue of varying studied time periods throughout the area. We 554 added references to all issues. 555 P2, L35: You concluded here or Kääb et al. concluded in 2015? Kääb et al (2012) – CHANGED 556