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Considering acquisition conditions of ICESat measurements and terrain surface characteristics, annual glacier elevation trends were estimated for 15 different settings with respect to terrain slope and roughness. In the end, we only included ICESat elevations acquired over terrain with a slope below 20\u00b0 and a roughness at the footprint scale below 15 m. With this setting, 90 glaciated areas could be distinguished. The results show that most of observed glaciated areas on the Tibetan Plateau are thinning, except for some glaciers in the northwest. In general, glacier elevations on the whole Tibetan Plateau decreased at an average rate of -0.17\u00b1  0.47 m per year (m a-1) between 2003 and 2009, taking together glaciers of any size, distribution, and location of the observed glaciated area. Both rate and rate error estimates are obtained by accumulating results from individual regions using least squares techniques. 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