Why do some mountain regions have peaks significantly lower than they should be?
As mentioned earlier, many original data voids are concentrated in mountainous areas and in snow-covered regions. Hence, many peaks in high-mountain areas are actually interpolated. Without using a high resolution co-variable for the interpolation, the interpolation fails to identify that the data void is actually a peak, and tends to “flatten” the peak, leading to underestimates in the true elevation for that region. This issue is largely resolved in Version 4.
