--- DOAJ_listed: '1' OA_place: publisher OA_type: gold PlanS_conform: '1' _id: '21837' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'In a warming world of glacier changes, the scientific community has dedicated increasing attention to debris-covered glaciers and their response to climate. A variety of models with distinct complexity and data requirements have been developed and widely used to simulate melt under debris at different sites and scales, but their skills have never been compared. As part of the activities of the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS) Debris Covered Glacier Working Group, we present an intercomparison exercise aimed at advancing our understanding of model skills in simulating ice melt under a debris layer. We compare 15 models with different complexity at nine sites in the European Alps, Caucasus, Chilean Andes, Nepalese Himalaya and the Southern Alps of New Zealand, over one melt season. We run the models with measured meteorological data from automatic weather stations and estimated or measured debris properties. We consider four main model categories: (i) energy balance models that calculate melt by solving the physics of heat transfer to the debris layer, but require a high amount of input data; (ii) a simplified energy balance model; (iii) enhanced temperature-index models; and (iv) simple empirical temperature-index models that have been extensively used given their low data requirement but require calibration of their empirical parameters. Model performance is evaluated using on-site measurements of sub-debris melt (for all models) and surface temperature (for models based on the surface energy balance). Our results show that physically-based energy balance models and empirical temperature-index models perform in a distinct manner. At one end of the spectrum, simple temperature-index models are accurate when recalibrated or when using site-specific literature parameters, and show poor results when parameters are uncalibrated. At the other end, energy balance models show a range of performance: the most accurate energy balance models are those with the highest degree of complexity at the atmosphere-debris interface. An important data gap emerged from our experiment: the poor performance of all models at three sites was related to the poor knowledge of debris properties, and specifically of thermal conductivity. Future work should focus on both: (i) consistent data acquisition to evaluate existing models and support new model developments; (ii) advancing models by accounting for processes such as debris-snow interactions, moisture in the debris and refreezing. We suggest that a systematic effort of model development using a common model framework could be carried out in phase II of the Working Group.' acknowledgement: "This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme grant agreement No\r\n772751, RAVEN, “Rapid mass losses of debris covered glaciers in\r\nHigh Mountain Asia”. It was also supported by the SNSF RENOIR\r\nproject “Resolving the thickness of debris on Earth’s glaciers and\r\nits rate of change (RENOIR)”, project number 204322.\r\nDavid Rounce received support from NASA-ROSES program\r\ngrants NNX17AB27G and 80NSSC17K0566. Walter Immerzeel\r\nand Jakob Steiner acknowledge support from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020\r\nresearch and innovation program (grant agreement no. 676819).\r\nBen Brock acknowledges support from the EU/FP7 ACQWA\r\n(Assessing Climate impacts on the Quantity and quality of WAter) project, NERC grant NE/C514282/1, the British Council-Italian\r\nMinistry of University and Research Partnership programme and\r\nthe Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.\r\nThe authors acknowledge the International Association of\r\nCryospheric Sciences (IACS) for supporting the creation of the\r\nDebris-Covered Glaciers Working Group (DCG-WG) which enabled this model intercomparison experiment.\r\nThe authors thank Martin Heynen for producing Figs. 3 and 4.\r\nThe authors thank Duncan Quincey and Richard Essery for their\r\nconstructive feedback and comments.\r\n" article_processing_charge: Yes article_type: original author: - first_name: Francesca full_name: Pellicciotti, Francesca id: b28f055a-81ea-11ed-b70c-a9fe7f7b0e70 last_name: Pellicciotti orcid: 0000-0002-5554-8087 - first_name: Adrià full_name: Fontrodona-Bach, Adrià id: f06891fd-9f42-11ee-8632-a20971c43046 last_name: Fontrodona-Bach - first_name: David R. full_name: Rounce, David R. last_name: Rounce - first_name: Catriona Louise full_name: Fyffe, Catriona Louise id: 001b0422-8d15-11ed-bc51-cab6c037a228 last_name: Fyffe - first_name: Leif S. full_name: Anderson, Leif S. last_name: Anderson - first_name: Álvaro full_name: Ayala, Álvaro last_name: Ayala - first_name: Ben W. full_name: Brock, Ben W. last_name: Brock - first_name: Pascal full_name: Buri, Pascal last_name: Buri - first_name: Stefan full_name: Fugger, Stefan last_name: Fugger - first_name: Koji full_name: Fujita, Koji last_name: Fujita - first_name: PRATEEK full_name: GANTAYAT, PRATEEK id: 02734268-3e8d-11ef-80a1-cec4a088d004 last_name: GANTAYAT - first_name: Alexander R. full_name: Groos, Alexander R. last_name: Groos - first_name: Walter full_name: Immerzeel, Walter last_name: Immerzeel - first_name: Marin full_name: Kneib, Marin last_name: Kneib - first_name: Christoph full_name: Mayer, Christoph last_name: Mayer - first_name: Shelley full_name: MacDonell, Shelley last_name: MacDonell - first_name: Michael full_name: McCarthy, Michael id: 22a2674a-61ce-11ee-94b5-d18813baf16f last_name: McCarthy - first_name: James full_name: McPhee, James last_name: McPhee - first_name: Evan full_name: Miles, Evan last_name: Miles - first_name: Heather full_name: Purdie, Heather last_name: Purdie - first_name: Ekaterina full_name: Rets, Ekaterina last_name: Rets - first_name: Akiko full_name: Sakai, Akiko last_name: Sakai - first_name: Thomas full_name: Shaw, Thomas id: 3caa3f91-1f03-11ee-96ce-e0e553054d6e last_name: Shaw orcid: 0000-0001-7640-6152 - first_name: Jakob full_name: Steiner, Jakob last_name: Steiner - first_name: Patrick full_name: Wagnon, Patrick last_name: Wagnon - first_name: Alex full_name: Winter-Billington, Alex last_name: Winter-Billington citation: ama: 'Pellicciotti F, Fontrodona-Bach A, Rounce DR, et al. DCG-MIP: The debris-covered glacier melt model intercomparison experiment. The Cryosphere. 2026;20(3):1895-1928. doi:10.5194/tc-20-1895-2026' apa: 'Pellicciotti, F., Fontrodona-Bach, A., Rounce, D. R., Fyffe, C. L., Anderson, L. S., Ayala, Á., … Winter-Billington, A. (2026). DCG-MIP: The debris-covered glacier melt model intercomparison experiment. The Cryosphere. Copernicus Publications. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-1895-2026' chicago: 'Pellicciotti, Francesca, Adrià Fontrodona-Bach, David R. Rounce, Catriona Louise Fyffe, Leif S. Anderson, Álvaro Ayala, Ben W. Brock, et al. “DCG-MIP: The Debris-Covered Glacier Melt Model Intercomparison Experiment.” The Cryosphere. Copernicus Publications, 2026. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-1895-2026.' ieee: 'F. Pellicciotti et al., “DCG-MIP: The debris-covered glacier melt model intercomparison experiment,” The Cryosphere, vol. 20, no. 3. Copernicus Publications, pp. 1895–1928, 2026.' ista: 'Pellicciotti F, Fontrodona-Bach A, Rounce DR, Fyffe CL, Anderson LS, Ayala Á, Brock BW, Buri P, Fugger S, Fujita K, GANTAYAT P, Groos AR, Immerzeel W, Kneib M, Mayer C, MacDonell S, McCarthy M, McPhee J, Miles E, Purdie H, Rets E, Sakai A, Shaw T, Steiner J, Wagnon P, Winter-Billington A. 2026. DCG-MIP: The debris-covered glacier melt model intercomparison experiment. The Cryosphere. 20(3), 1895–1928.' mla: 'Pellicciotti, Francesca, et al. “DCG-MIP: The Debris-Covered Glacier Melt Model Intercomparison Experiment.” The Cryosphere, vol. 20, no. 3, Copernicus Publications, 2026, pp. 1895–928, doi:10.5194/tc-20-1895-2026.' short: F. Pellicciotti, A. Fontrodona-Bach, D.R. Rounce, C.L. Fyffe, L.S. Anderson, Á. Ayala, B.W. Brock, P. Buri, S. Fugger, K. Fujita, P. GANTAYAT, A.R. Groos, W. Immerzeel, M. Kneib, C. Mayer, S. MacDonell, M. McCarthy, J. McPhee, E. Miles, H. Purdie, E. Rets, A. Sakai, T. Shaw, J. Steiner, P. Wagnon, A. Winter-Billington, The Cryosphere 20 (2026) 1895–1928. corr_author: '1' date_created: 2026-05-07T08:48:38Z date_published: 2026-04-02T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-05-18T06:12:56Z day: '02' ddc: - '550' department: - _id: FrPe doi: 10.5194/tc-20-1895-2026 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: f15abad4ee360d41a3e8794f068711fc content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2026-05-18T06:07:53Z date_updated: 2026-05-18T06:07:53Z file_id: '21886' file_name: 2026_Cryosphere_Pellicciotti.pdf file_size: 3168394 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2026-05-18T06:07:53Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 20' issue: '3' language: - iso: eng license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ month: '04' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 1895-1928 publication: The Cryosphere publication_identifier: eissn: - 1994-0424 publication_status: published publisher: Copernicus Publications quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: 'DCG-MIP: The debris-covered glacier melt model intercomparison experiment' tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 20 year: '2026' ... --- DOAJ_listed: '1' OA_place: publisher OA_type: gold PlanS_conform: '1' _id: '21247' abstract: - lang: eng text: Seasonal snowmelt in High Mountain Asia is an important source of river discharge. Therefore, observation of the spatiotemporal variations in snow cover at catchment scales using high-resolution satellites is essential for understanding changes in water supply from headwater catchments. In this study, we adapt an algorithm to automatically detect the snowline altitude (SLA) using the Google Earth Engine platform with available high-resolution multispectral satellite archives that can be readily applied for areas of interest. Here, we applied and evaluated the tool to five glacierized watersheds across the Himalayas to quantify the changes in seasonal and annual snow cover over the past 21 years and analyze climate reanalysis data to assess the meteorological factors influencing the SLA. Our findings revealed substantial variations in the SLA among sites in terms of seasonal patterns, decadal trends, and meteorological controls. We identify positive trends in SLA in Hidden Valley (+11.9 m yr−1), Langtang (+14.4 m yr−1), and Rolwaling (+8.2 m yr−1) in the Nepalese Himalayas but a negative trend in Satopanth (−15.6 m yr−1) in the western Indian Himalayas and no significant trend in Parlung in southeastern Tibet. We suggest that the increase in SLA in Nepal was caused by warmer temperatures during the monsoon season, whereas the decrease in SLA in India was driven by increased winter snowfall and reduced monsoon snowmelt. By integrating the outcomes of these analyses, we found that long-term changes in SLA are primarily driven by shifts in the local climate, whereas seasonal variability may be influenced by geographic features in conjunction with climate. acknowledgement: We thank Maud Bernat for helping with the modification of the automatic detection code and Michael McCarthy for preparing snowline data derived from the MODIS satellite. This research was supported by the JSPS–SNSF (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science–Swiss National Science Foundation) bilateral program project (HOPE, High-elevation precipitation in High Mountain Asia; JPJSJRP 20191503, grant no. 183633) and JSPS KAKENHI (grant nos. 23K13417 and 23H01509). article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Orie full_name: Sasaki, Orie last_name: Sasaki - first_name: Evan S. full_name: Miles, Evan S. last_name: Miles - first_name: Francesca full_name: Pellicciotti, Francesca id: b28f055a-81ea-11ed-b70c-a9fe7f7b0e70 last_name: Pellicciotti orcid: 0000-0002-5554-8087 - first_name: Akiko full_name: Sakai, Akiko last_name: Sakai - first_name: Koji full_name: Fujita, Koji last_name: Fujita citation: ama: Sasaki O, Miles ES, Pellicciotti F, Sakai A, Fujita K. Contrasting patterns of change in snowline altitude across five Himalayan catchments. The Cryosphere. 2025;19(11):5283-5298. doi:10.5194/tc-19-5283-2025 apa: Sasaki, O., Miles, E. S., Pellicciotti, F., Sakai, A., & Fujita, K. (2025). Contrasting patterns of change in snowline altitude across five Himalayan catchments. The Cryosphere. Copernicus Publications. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-5283-2025 chicago: Sasaki, Orie, Evan S. Miles, Francesca Pellicciotti, Akiko Sakai, and Koji Fujita. “Contrasting Patterns of Change in Snowline Altitude across Five Himalayan Catchments.” The Cryosphere. Copernicus Publications, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-5283-2025. ieee: O. Sasaki, E. S. Miles, F. Pellicciotti, A. Sakai, and K. Fujita, “Contrasting patterns of change in snowline altitude across five Himalayan catchments,” The Cryosphere, vol. 19, no. 11. Copernicus Publications, pp. 5283–5298, 2025. ista: Sasaki O, Miles ES, Pellicciotti F, Sakai A, Fujita K. 2025. Contrasting patterns of change in snowline altitude across five Himalayan catchments. The Cryosphere. 19(11), 5283–5298. mla: Sasaki, Orie, et al. “Contrasting Patterns of Change in Snowline Altitude across Five Himalayan Catchments.” The Cryosphere, vol. 19, no. 11, Copernicus Publications, 2025, pp. 5283–98, doi:10.5194/tc-19-5283-2025. short: O. Sasaki, E.S. Miles, F. Pellicciotti, A. Sakai, K. Fujita, The Cryosphere 19 (2025) 5283–5298. date_created: 2026-02-16T15:36:51Z date_published: 2025-11-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-02-17T12:49:00Z day: '01' ddc: - '550' department: - _id: FrPe doi: 10.5194/tc-19-5283-2025 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 2bb8ada7536bb69b39448f13098f8cea content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2026-02-17T12:35:44Z date_updated: 2026-02-17T12:35:44Z file_id: '21303' file_name: 2025_Cryosphere_Sasaki.pdf file_size: 6617241 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2026-02-17T12:35:44Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 19' issue: '11' language: - iso: eng month: '11' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 5283-5298 publication: The Cryosphere publication_identifier: eissn: - 1994-0424 publication_status: published publisher: Copernicus Publications quality_controlled: '1' status: public title: Contrasting patterns of change in snowline altitude across five Himalayan catchments tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 19 year: '2025' ... --- OA_type: closed access _id: '18985' abstract: - lang: eng text: Persistent multiyear drought (MYD) events pose a growing threat to nature and humans in a changing climate. We identified and inventoried global MYDs by detecting spatiotemporally contiguous climatic anomalies, showing that MYDs have become drier, hotter, and led to increasingly diminished vegetation greenness. The global terrestrial land affected by MYDs has increased at a rate of 49,279 ± 14,771 square kilometers per year from 1980 to 2018. Temperate grasslands have exhibited the greatest declines in vegetation greenness during MYDs, whereas boreal and tropical forests have had comparably minor responses. With MYDs becoming more common, this global quantitative inventory of the occurrence, severity, trend, and impact of MYDs provides an important benchmark for facilitating more effective and collaborative preparedness toward mitigation of and adaptation to such extreme events. acknowledgement: This study received support from the Extremes Research Program funded by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) within the EMERGE project of the Extremes program. article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Liangzhi full_name: Chen, Liangzhi last_name: Chen - first_name: Philipp full_name: Brun, Philipp last_name: Brun - first_name: Pascal full_name: Buri, Pascal id: 317987aa-9421-11ee-ac5a-b941b041abba last_name: Buri - first_name: Simone full_name: Fatichi, Simone last_name: Fatichi - first_name: Arthur full_name: Gessler, Arthur last_name: Gessler - first_name: Michael full_name: Mccarthy, Michael id: 22a2674a-61ce-11ee-94b5-d18813baf16f last_name: Mccarthy - first_name: Francesca full_name: Pellicciotti, Francesca id: b28f055a-81ea-11ed-b70c-a9fe7f7b0e70 last_name: Pellicciotti orcid: 0000-0002-5554-8087 - first_name: Benjamin full_name: Stocker, Benjamin last_name: Stocker - first_name: Dirk Nikolaus full_name: Karger, Dirk Nikolaus last_name: Karger citation: ama: Chen L, Brun P, Buri P, et al. Global increase in the occurrence and impact of multiyear droughts. Science. 2025;387(6731):278-284. doi:10.1126/science.ado4245 apa: Chen, L., Brun, P., Buri, P., Fatichi, S., Gessler, A., McCarthy, M., … Karger, D. N. (2025). Global increase in the occurrence and impact of multiyear droughts. Science. AAAS. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ado4245 chicago: Chen, Liangzhi, Philipp Brun, Pascal Buri, Simone Fatichi, Arthur Gessler, Michael McCarthy, Francesca Pellicciotti, Benjamin Stocker, and Dirk Nikolaus Karger. “Global Increase in the Occurrence and Impact of Multiyear Droughts.” Science. AAAS, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ado4245. ieee: L. Chen et al., “Global increase in the occurrence and impact of multiyear droughts,” Science, vol. 387, no. 6731. AAAS, pp. 278–284, 2025. ista: Chen L, Brun P, Buri P, Fatichi S, Gessler A, McCarthy M, Pellicciotti F, Stocker B, Karger DN. 2025. Global increase in the occurrence and impact of multiyear droughts. Science. 387(6731), 278–284. mla: Chen, Liangzhi, et al. “Global Increase in the Occurrence and Impact of Multiyear Droughts.” Science, vol. 387, no. 6731, AAAS, 2025, pp. 278–84, doi:10.1126/science.ado4245. short: L. Chen, P. Brun, P. Buri, S. Fatichi, A. Gessler, M. McCarthy, F. Pellicciotti, B. Stocker, D.N. Karger, Science 387 (2025) 278–284. date_created: 2025-02-02T23:01:54Z date_published: 2025-01-17T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-09-30T10:24:34Z day: '17' department: - _id: FrPe doi: 10.1126/science.ado4245 external_id: isi: - '001491931700027' pmid: - '39818908' intvolume: ' 387' isi: 1 issue: '6731' language: - iso: eng month: '01' oa_version: None page: 278-284 pmid: 1 publication: Science publication_identifier: eissn: - 1095-9203 publication_status: published publisher: AAAS quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Global increase in the occurrence and impact of multiyear droughts type: journal_article user_id: 317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345 volume: 387 year: '2025' ... --- DOAJ_listed: '1' OA_place: publisher OA_type: gold _id: '19777' abstract: - lang: eng text: Snow cover is of key importance for water resources in high mountain Asia (HMA) and is expected to undergo extensive changes in a warming climate. Past studies have quantified snow cover changes with satellite products of relatively low spatial resolution (∼500 m) which are hindered by the steep topography of this mountain region. We derive snowlines from Sentinel-2 and Landsat 5, 7 and 8 images, which, thanks to their higher spatial resolution, are less sensitive to the local topography. We calculate the snow line altitude (SLA) and its seasonality for all glacierized catchments of HMA and link these patterns to climate variables corrected for topographic biases. As such, the snowline changes provide a clear proxy for climatic changes. Our results highlight a strong spatial variability in mean SLA and in its seasonal changes, including across mountain chains and between the monsoon-dominated and the westerlies-dominated catchments. Over the period 1999–2019, the western regions of HMA (Pamir, Karakoram, Western Himalaya) have undergone increased snow coverage, expressed as seasonal SLA decrease, in spring and summer. This change is opposed to a widespread increase in SLA in autumn across the region, and especially the southeastern regions of HMA (Nyainqentanglha, Hengduan Shan, South–East Himalaya). Our results indicate that the diversity of seasonal snow dynamics across the region is controlled not by temperature or precipitation directly but by the timing and partitioning of solid precipitation. Decadal snowline changes (1999–2009 vs 2009–2019) seasonally precede temperature changes, suggesting that seasonal temperature changes in the Karakoram–Pamir and Eastern Nyainqentanglha regions may have responded to snow cover changes, rather than driving them. acknowledgement: This work was supported by the SNSF (Science and Swiss National Science Foundation)-SSSTC (Sino-Swiss Science and Technology Cooperation) Project (IZLCZ0_189890) 'Understanding snow, glacier and rivers response to climate in High Mountain Asia (ASCENT)', by the JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion)-SNSF Bilateral Programmes project (HOPE, High-elevation precipitation in High Mountain Asia; Grant 183633), and the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (RAVEN, Rapid mass losses of debris-covered glaciers in High Mountain Asia; Grant 772751). Marin Kneib acknowledges funding from the SNSF Postdoc.Mobility program (Grant No. P500PN_210739). article_number: '064039' article_processing_charge: Yes article_type: original author: - first_name: M. full_name: Bernat, M. last_name: Bernat - first_name: E. S. full_name: Miles, E. S. last_name: Miles - first_name: M. full_name: Kneib, M. last_name: Kneib - first_name: K. full_name: Fujita, K. last_name: Fujita - first_name: O. full_name: Sasaki, O. last_name: Sasaki - first_name: Thomas full_name: Shaw, Thomas id: 3caa3f91-1f03-11ee-96ce-e0e553054d6e last_name: Shaw orcid: 0000-0001-7640-6152 - first_name: Francesca full_name: Pellicciotti, Francesca id: b28f055a-81ea-11ed-b70c-a9fe7f7b0e70 last_name: Pellicciotti orcid: 0000-0002-5554-8087 citation: ama: Bernat M, Miles ES, Kneib M, et al. Precipitation phase drives seasonal and decadal snowline changes in high mountain Asia. Environmental Research Letters. 2025;20(6). doi:10.1088/1748-9326/adcf39 apa: Bernat, M., Miles, E. S., Kneib, M., Fujita, K., Sasaki, O., Shaw, T., & Pellicciotti, F. (2025). Precipitation phase drives seasonal and decadal snowline changes in high mountain Asia. Environmental Research Letters. IOP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adcf39 chicago: Bernat, M., E. S. Miles, M. Kneib, K. Fujita, O. Sasaki, Thomas Shaw, and Francesca Pellicciotti. “Precipitation Phase Drives Seasonal and Decadal Snowline Changes in High Mountain Asia.” Environmental Research Letters. IOP Publishing, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adcf39. ieee: M. Bernat et al., “Precipitation phase drives seasonal and decadal snowline changes in high mountain Asia,” Environmental Research Letters, vol. 20, no. 6. IOP Publishing, 2025. ista: Bernat M, Miles ES, Kneib M, Fujita K, Sasaki O, Shaw T, Pellicciotti F. 2025. Precipitation phase drives seasonal and decadal snowline changes in high mountain Asia. Environmental Research Letters. 20(6), 064039. mla: Bernat, M., et al. “Precipitation Phase Drives Seasonal and Decadal Snowline Changes in High Mountain Asia.” Environmental Research Letters, vol. 20, no. 6, 064039, IOP Publishing, 2025, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/adcf39. short: M. Bernat, E.S. Miles, M. Kneib, K. Fujita, O. Sasaki, T. Shaw, F. Pellicciotti, Environmental Research Letters 20 (2025). date_created: 2025-06-03T07:30:21Z date_published: 2025-06-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-09-30T12:43:11Z day: '01' ddc: - '550' department: - _id: FrPe doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/adcf39 external_id: isi: - '001493525600001' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 84a8d895762f0ab4b30b34e7387b33c7 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2025-06-03T08:10:45Z date_updated: 2025-06-03T08:10:45Z file_id: '19781' file_name: 2025_EnvironmResearchLetters_Bernat.pdf file_size: 3604497 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2025-06-03T08:10:45Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 20' isi: 1 issue: '6' language: - iso: eng month: '06' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version publication: Environmental Research Letters publication_identifier: eissn: - 1748-9326 publication_status: published publisher: IOP Publishing quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '19780' relation: research_data status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Precipitation phase drives seasonal and decadal snowline changes in high mountain Asia tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345 volume: 20 year: '2025' ... --- OA_place: publisher OA_type: gold _id: '19839' abstract: - lang: eng text: The snow and glaciers of the Peruvian Andes provide vital water supplies in a region facing water scarcity and substantial glacier change. However, there remains a lack of understanding of snow processes and quantification of the contribution of melt to runoff. Here we apply a distributed glacio-hydrological model over the Rio Santa basin to disentangle the role of the cryosphere in the Andean water cycle. Only at the highest elevations (>5000 m a.s.l.) is the snow cover continuous; at lower elevations, the snowpack is thin and ephemeral, with rapid cycles of snowfall and melt. Due to the large catchment area affected by ephemeral snow, its contribution to catchment inputs is substantial (23% and 38% in the wet and dry season, respectively). Ice melt is crucial in the mid-dry season (up to 44% of inputs). Our results improve estimates of water fluxes and call for further process-based modelling across the Andes. acknowledgement: This work was conducted under the PeruGROWS and PEGASUS projects, which were both funded by NERC (grants NE/S013296/1 and NE/S013318/1, respectively) and CONCYTEC through the Newton-Paulet Fund. The Peruvian part of the Peru GROWS project was conducted within the framework of the call E031-2018-01-NERC Glacier Research Circles through its executing unit FONDECYT (Contract N°08-2019-FONDECYT). Francesca Pellicciotti acknowledges support from the SNSF-funded PASTURE project, grant no. 202604. Catriona Fyffe was supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action project EPIC, which was funded by the European Union (grant number 101105480). We thank Florian von Ah for calculating the altitudinally resolved glacier mass balances for the catchment. We also thank Duncan Quincey for his support and guidance within both the PeruGROWS and PEGASUS projects. Gerardo Jacome and Alan Llacza are thanked for their contribution to the climate modelling. We thank Ignacio López-Moreno and Simon Gascoin for their thoughtful and constructive comments, which greatly improved the manuscript. The team dedicates this work to the memory of Ing. Alejo Cochachin Rapre, and his tireless work to monitor the region’s glaciers. article_number: '434' article_processing_charge: Yes article_type: original author: - first_name: Catriona Louise full_name: Fyffe, Catriona Louise id: 001b0422-8d15-11ed-bc51-cab6c037a228 last_name: Fyffe - first_name: Emily full_name: Potter, Emily last_name: Potter - first_name: Evan full_name: Miles, Evan last_name: Miles - first_name: Thomas full_name: Shaw, Thomas id: 3caa3f91-1f03-11ee-96ce-e0e553054d6e last_name: Shaw orcid: 0000-0001-7640-6152 - first_name: Michael full_name: Mccarthy, Michael id: 22a2674a-61ce-11ee-94b5-d18813baf16f last_name: Mccarthy - first_name: Andrew full_name: Orr, Andrew last_name: Orr - first_name: Edwin full_name: Loarte, Edwin last_name: Loarte - first_name: Katy full_name: Medina, Katy last_name: Medina - first_name: Simone full_name: Fatichi, Simone last_name: Fatichi - first_name: Rob full_name: Hellström, Rob last_name: Hellström - first_name: Michel full_name: Baraer, Michel last_name: Baraer - first_name: Emilio full_name: Mateo, Emilio last_name: Mateo - first_name: Alejo full_name: Cochachin, Alejo last_name: Cochachin - first_name: Matthew full_name: Westoby, Matthew last_name: Westoby - first_name: Francesca full_name: Pellicciotti, Francesca id: b28f055a-81ea-11ed-b70c-a9fe7f7b0e70 last_name: Pellicciotti orcid: 0000-0002-5554-8087 citation: ama: Fyffe CL, Potter E, Miles E, et al. Thin and ephemeral snow shapes melt and runoff dynamics in the Peruvian Andes. Communications Earth and Environment. 2025;6. doi:10.1038/s43247-025-02379-x apa: Fyffe, C. L., Potter, E., Miles, E., Shaw, T., McCarthy, M., Orr, A., … Pellicciotti, F. (2025). Thin and ephemeral snow shapes melt and runoff dynamics in the Peruvian Andes. Communications Earth and Environment. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02379-x chicago: Fyffe, Catriona Louise, Emily Potter, Evan Miles, Thomas Shaw, Michael McCarthy, Andrew Orr, Edwin Loarte, et al. “Thin and Ephemeral Snow Shapes Melt and Runoff Dynamics in the Peruvian Andes.” Communications Earth and Environment. Springer Nature, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02379-x. ieee: C. L. Fyffe et al., “Thin and ephemeral snow shapes melt and runoff dynamics in the Peruvian Andes,” Communications Earth and Environment, vol. 6. Springer Nature, 2025. ista: Fyffe CL, Potter E, Miles E, Shaw T, McCarthy M, Orr A, Loarte E, Medina K, Fatichi S, Hellström R, Baraer M, Mateo E, Cochachin A, Westoby M, Pellicciotti F. 2025. Thin and ephemeral snow shapes melt and runoff dynamics in the Peruvian Andes. Communications Earth and Environment. 6, 434. mla: Fyffe, Catriona Louise, et al. “Thin and Ephemeral Snow Shapes Melt and Runoff Dynamics in the Peruvian Andes.” Communications Earth and Environment, vol. 6, 434, Springer Nature, 2025, doi:10.1038/s43247-025-02379-x. short: C.L. Fyffe, E. Potter, E. Miles, T. Shaw, M. McCarthy, A. Orr, E. Loarte, K. Medina, S. Fatichi, R. Hellström, M. Baraer, E. Mateo, A. Cochachin, M. Westoby, F. Pellicciotti, Communications Earth and Environment 6 (2025). corr_author: '1' date_created: 2025-06-15T22:01:28Z date_published: 2025-06-05T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-09-30T12:48:43Z day: '05' ddc: - '550' department: - _id: FrPe doi: 10.1038/s43247-025-02379-x external_id: isi: - '001503932400002' pmid: - '40486185' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 5d5317640abe280c4f4edfca732cf4e0 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2025-06-23T06:41:15Z date_updated: 2025-06-23T06:41:15Z file_id: '19862' file_name: 2025_CommEarthEnvir_Fyffe.pdf file_size: 3172494 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2025-06-23T06:41:15Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 6' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '06' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version pmid: 1 project: - _id: bdbe6627-d553-11ed-ba76-b5c9eedf278f grant_number: '101105480' name: ExPloring the ecohydrological Impacts of a changing Cryosphere in the Peruvian Andes publication: Communications Earth and Environment publication_identifier: eissn: - 2662-4435 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Thin and ephemeral snow shapes melt and runoff dynamics in the Peruvian Andes tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345 volume: 6 year: '2025' ... --- OA_place: publisher OA_type: hybrid _id: '19878' abstract: - lang: eng text: Rock debris partially covers glaciers worldwide, with varying extents and distributions, and controls sub‐debris melt rates by modifying energy transfer from the atmosphere to the ice. Two key physical properties controlling this energy exchange are thermal conductivity (k) and aerodynamic roughness length (z0). Accurate representation of these properties in energy‐balance models is critical for understanding climate‐glacier interactions and predicting the behavior of debris‐covered glaciers. However, k and z0 have been derived at very few sites from limited local measurements, using different approaches, and most model applications rely on values reported from these few sites and studies. We derive k and z0 using established and modified approaches from data at three locations on Pirámide Glacier in the central Chilean Andes. By comparing methods and evaluating melt simulated with an energy‐balance model, we reveal substantial differences between approaches. These lead to discrepancies between ice melt from energy‐balance simulations and observed data, and highlight the impact of method choice on calculated ice melt. Optimizing k against measured melt appears a viable approach to constrain melt simulations. Determining z0 seems less critical, as it has a smaller impact on total melt. Profile aerodynamic method measurements for estimating z0, despite higher costs, are independent of ice melt calculations. The large, unexpected differences between methods indicate a substantial knowledge gap. The fact that field‐derived k and z0 fail to work well in energy‐balance models, suggests that model values represent bulk properties distinct from theoretical field measurements. Addressing this gap is essential for improving glacier melt predictions. acknowledgement: This project received funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (Grant 204322, project “REsolving the thickNess Of debris on Earth's glacIers and its Rate of change,” RENOIR). We thank Lars Groeneveld, Diego Hernández, Alonso Mejías, Gabriela Reyes and Gabriela Tala for their support during fieldwork. Open access funding provided by Institute of Science and Technology Austria/KEMÖ. article_number: e2025JF008360 article_processing_charge: Yes (via OA deal) article_type: original author: - first_name: Juan Vicente full_name: Melo Velasco, Juan Vicente id: 2611dec0-b9c6-11ed-9bea-a81c2b17a549 last_name: Melo Velasco - first_name: Evan full_name: Miles, Evan last_name: Miles - first_name: Michael full_name: McCarthy, Michael id: 22a2674a-61ce-11ee-94b5-d18813baf16f last_name: McCarthy - first_name: Thomas full_name: Shaw, Thomas id: 3caa3f91-1f03-11ee-96ce-e0e553054d6e last_name: Shaw orcid: 0000-0001-7640-6152 - first_name: Catriona Louise full_name: Fyffe, Catriona Louise id: 001b0422-8d15-11ed-bc51-cab6c037a228 last_name: Fyffe - first_name: Adrià full_name: Fontrodona-Bach, Adrià id: f06891fd-9f42-11ee-8632-a20971c43046 last_name: Fontrodona-Bach - first_name: Francesca full_name: Pellicciotti, Francesca id: b28f055a-81ea-11ed-b70c-a9fe7f7b0e70 last_name: Pellicciotti orcid: 0000-0002-5554-8087 citation: ama: 'Melo Velasco JV, Miles E, McCarthy M, et al. Method dependence in thermal conductivity and aerodynamic roughness length estimates on a debris‐covered glacier. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 2025;130(6). doi:10.1029/2025jf008360' apa: 'Melo Velasco, J. V., Miles, E., McCarthy, M., Shaw, T., Fyffe, C. L., Fontrodona-Bach, A., & Pellicciotti, F. (2025). Method dependence in thermal conductivity and aerodynamic roughness length estimates on a debris‐covered glacier. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025jf008360' chicago: 'Melo Velasco, Juan Vicente, Evan Miles, Michael McCarthy, Thomas Shaw, Catriona Louise Fyffe, Adrià Fontrodona-Bach, and Francesca Pellicciotti. “Method Dependence in Thermal Conductivity and Aerodynamic Roughness Length Estimates on a Debris‐covered Glacier.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. Wiley, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025jf008360.' ieee: 'J. V. Melo Velasco et al., “Method dependence in thermal conductivity and aerodynamic roughness length estimates on a debris‐covered glacier,” Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, vol. 130, no. 6. Wiley, 2025.' ista: 'Melo Velasco JV, Miles E, McCarthy M, Shaw T, Fyffe CL, Fontrodona-Bach A, Pellicciotti F. 2025. Method dependence in thermal conductivity and aerodynamic roughness length estimates on a debris‐covered glacier. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 130(6), e2025JF008360.' mla: 'Melo Velasco, Juan Vicente, et al. “Method Dependence in Thermal Conductivity and Aerodynamic Roughness Length Estimates on a Debris‐covered Glacier.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, vol. 130, no. 6, e2025JF008360, Wiley, 2025, doi:10.1029/2025jf008360.' short: 'J.V. Melo Velasco, E. Miles, M. McCarthy, T. Shaw, C.L. Fyffe, A. Fontrodona-Bach, F. Pellicciotti, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 130 (2025).' corr_author: '1' date_created: 2025-06-23T13:54:01Z date_published: 2025-06-15T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-09-30T13:42:28Z day: '15' ddc: - '550' department: - _id: FrPe doi: 10.1029/2025jf008360 external_id: isi: - '001508794200001' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: ca91541516c71d240321630ca42b4dc4 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2025-06-24T06:27:34Z date_updated: 2025-06-24T06:27:34Z file_id: '19886' file_name: 2025_JGREarthSurface_MeloVelasco.pdf file_size: 3949928 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2025-06-24T06:27:34Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 130' isi: 1 issue: '6' language: - iso: eng month: '06' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version publication: 'Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface' publication_identifier: eissn: - 2169-9011 issn: - 2169-9003 publication_status: published publisher: Wiley quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Method dependence in thermal conductivity and aerodynamic roughness length estimates on a debris‐covered glacier tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345 volume: 130 year: '2025' ... --- DOAJ_listed: '1' OA_place: publisher OA_type: gold PlanS_conform: '1' _id: '20348' abstract: - lang: eng text: Central Asia hosts some of the world’s last relatively healthy mountain glaciers and is heavily dependent on snow and ice melt for downstream water supply, though the causes of this stable glacier state are not known. We combine recent in-situ observations, climate reanalysis and remote sensing data to force a land-surface model to reconstruct glacier changes over the last two decades (1999–2023) and disentangle their causes over a benchmark glacierized catchment in Tajikistan. We show that snowfall and snow depth have been substantially lower since 2018, leading to a decline in glacier health and reduced runoff generation. Remote-sensing observations confirm wider snow depletion across the Northwestern Pamirs, suggesting that a lack of snowfall might be a cause of mass losses regionally. Our results provide an explanation for the recent decline in glacier health in the region, and reinforce the need to better understand the variability of precipitation. acknowledgement: This work was made possible with funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (ASCENT Project 189890, Understanding snow, glacier and rivers response to climate in High Mountain Asia). It was also supported by the ERC Consolidator RAVEN project No. 772751, Rapid mass losses of debris-covered glaciers in High Mountain Asia. Fieldwork funding support for the repeated visits to Tajikistan was also received from the Swiss Polar Institute Flagship Programme PAMIR (SPI-FLAG-2021-001) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (HOPE Project 183633, High-elevation precipitation in High Mountain Asia). We would like to thank Firdavs Vosidov, Ubaydullo Ubaydulloev, Tojiddin Rasulzoda and Iskandarov Handullo from the Center for the Research of Glaciers, Tajik National Academy of Sciences (CRG-TAS), for their invaluable support over multiple field campaigns at the study site. We thank Nazrialo Sheralizoda, current director of CRG-TAS, and Tomas Saks from the University of Fribourg for their support in enabling and coordinating the ongoing collaborative monitoring and measurements at the site. Marin Kneib acknowledges the funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) under the Contribution of avalanches to glacier mass balance (CAIRN) Postdoc Mobility program (grant agreement P500PN_210739). We extend our thanks to Hamish Pritchard and Federico Covi at BAS for their help with the processing of lake water pressure data. Finally, we thank the photographer Jason Klimatsas for the photos he took which we use in Fig. 1b and Supplementary Fig. S1. Pleiades stereo imagery was acquired through the CNES ISIS programme. article_number: '691' article_processing_charge: Yes article_type: original author: - first_name: Achille full_name: Jouberton, Achille id: f2426a39-920b-11f0-ac40-cbeda2086b9c last_name: Jouberton - first_name: Thomas full_name: Shaw, Thomas id: 3caa3f91-1f03-11ee-96ce-e0e553054d6e last_name: Shaw orcid: 0000-0001-7640-6152 - first_name: Evan full_name: Miles, Evan last_name: Miles - first_name: Marin full_name: Kneib, Marin last_name: Kneib - first_name: Stefan full_name: Fugger, Stefan id: 86698d64-c4c6-11ee-af02-cdf1e6a7d31f last_name: Fugger - first_name: Pascal full_name: Buri, Pascal id: 317987aa-9421-11ee-ac5a-b941b041abba last_name: Buri - first_name: Michael full_name: Mccarthy, Michael id: 22a2674a-61ce-11ee-94b5-d18813baf16f last_name: Mccarthy - first_name: Abdulhamid full_name: Kayumov, Abdulhamid last_name: Kayumov - first_name: Hofiz full_name: Navruzshoev, Hofiz last_name: Navruzshoev - first_name: Ardamehr full_name: Halimov, Ardamehr last_name: Halimov - first_name: Khusrav full_name: Kabutov, Khusrav last_name: Kabutov - first_name: Farrukh full_name: Homidov, Farrukh last_name: Homidov - first_name: Francesca full_name: Pellicciotti, Francesca id: b28f055a-81ea-11ed-b70c-a9fe7f7b0e70 last_name: Pellicciotti orcid: 0000-0002-5554-8087 citation: ama: Jouberton A, Shaw T, Miles E, et al. Snowfall decrease in recent years undermines glacier health and meltwater resources in the Northwestern Pamirs. Communications Earth and Environment. 2025;6. doi:10.1038/s43247-025-02611-8 apa: Jouberton, A., Shaw, T., Miles, E., Kneib, M., Fugger, S., Buri, P., … Pellicciotti, F. (2025). Snowfall decrease in recent years undermines glacier health and meltwater resources in the Northwestern Pamirs. Communications Earth and Environment. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02611-8 chicago: Jouberton, Achille, Thomas Shaw, Evan Miles, Marin Kneib, Stefan Fugger, Pascal Buri, Michael McCarthy, et al. “Snowfall Decrease in Recent Years Undermines Glacier Health and Meltwater Resources in the Northwestern Pamirs.” Communications Earth and Environment. Springer Nature, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02611-8. ieee: A. Jouberton et al., “Snowfall decrease in recent years undermines glacier health and meltwater resources in the Northwestern Pamirs,” Communications Earth and Environment, vol. 6. Springer Nature, 2025. ista: Jouberton A, Shaw T, Miles E, Kneib M, Fugger S, Buri P, McCarthy M, Kayumov A, Navruzshoev H, Halimov A, Kabutov K, Homidov F, Pellicciotti F. 2025. Snowfall decrease in recent years undermines glacier health and meltwater resources in the Northwestern Pamirs. Communications Earth and Environment. 6, 691. mla: Jouberton, Achille, et al. “Snowfall Decrease in Recent Years Undermines Glacier Health and Meltwater Resources in the Northwestern Pamirs.” Communications Earth and Environment, vol. 6, 691, Springer Nature, 2025, doi:10.1038/s43247-025-02611-8. short: A. Jouberton, T. Shaw, E. Miles, M. Kneib, S. Fugger, P. Buri, M. McCarthy, A. Kayumov, H. Navruzshoev, A. Halimov, K. Kabutov, F. Homidov, F. Pellicciotti, Communications Earth and Environment 6 (2025). corr_author: '1' date_created: 2025-09-14T22:01:31Z date_published: 2025-09-02T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-04-28T13:25:55Z day: '02' ddc: - '550' department: - _id: FrPe doi: 10.1038/s43247-025-02611-8 external_id: isi: - '001563848700001' pmid: - '40910036' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 62f9740c6cf564879006f4d97b58b608 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2025-09-15T08:16:09Z date_updated: 2025-09-15T08:16:09Z file_id: '20356' file_name: 2025_CommEarthEnvir_Jouberton.pdf file_size: 3840094 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2025-09-15T08:16:09Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 6' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '09' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version pmid: 1 publication: Communications Earth and Environment publication_identifier: eissn: - 2662-4435 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' related_material: link: - description: News on ISTA website relation: press_release url: https://ista.ac.at/en/news/the-tipping-of-the-last-resilient-glaciers/ scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Snowfall decrease in recent years undermines glacier health and meltwater resources in the Northwestern Pamirs tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd volume: 6 year: '2025' ... --- OA_place: publisher OA_type: hybrid PlanS_conform: '1' _id: '20480' abstract: - lang: eng text: Recent studies have argued that air temperatures over many mountain glaciers are decoupled from their surroundings, leading to a local cooling which could slow down melting. Here we use a compilation of on-glacier meteorological observations to assess the extent to which this relationship changes under warming. Statistical modelling of the potential temperature decoupling of the world’s mountain glaciers indicates that currently glacier boundary layers warm ~0.83 °C on average for every degree of ambient temperature rise. Future projections under shared socioeconomic pathway (SSP) climate scenarios SSP 2-4.5 and SSP 5-8.5 indicate that decoupling, and thus relative cooling over glaciers, is maximized during the 2020s and 2030s, before widespread glacier retreat acts to recouple above-glacier air temperatures with its surroundings. This nonlinear feedback will lead to an increased sensitivity to warming from midcentury, with glaciers losing their capacity to affect the local climate and cool themselves. acknowledgement: This work was funded by the EU Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions grant 101026058. T.E.S. also acknowledges funding from the EU Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 101034413. We acknowledge funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme grant agreement no. 772751, RAVEN, ‘Rapid mass losses of debris-covered glaciers in High Mountain Asia’ and from the Swiss National Science Foundation (ASCENT Project 189890). L.C. carried out work within the RETURN Extended Partnership and received funding from the European Union Next-Generation EU (National Recovery and Resilience Plan—NRRP, Mission 4, Component 2, Investment 1.3—D.D. 1243 2/8/2022, PE0000005). We acknowledge the dedicated collection of field data and the kind provision of data from many weather stations around the world (details, references and acknowledgements in Supplementary Table 1). Open access funding provided by Institute of Science and Technology (IST Austria). article_processing_charge: Yes (via OA deal) article_type: original author: - first_name: Thomas full_name: Shaw, Thomas id: 3caa3f91-1f03-11ee-96ce-e0e553054d6e last_name: Shaw orcid: 0000-0001-7640-6152 - first_name: Evan S. full_name: Miles, Evan S. last_name: Miles - first_name: Michael full_name: McCarthy, Michael id: 22a2674a-61ce-11ee-94b5-d18813baf16f last_name: McCarthy - first_name: Pascal full_name: Buri, Pascal last_name: Buri - first_name: Nicolas full_name: Guyennon, Nicolas last_name: Guyennon - first_name: Franco full_name: Salerno, Franco last_name: Salerno - first_name: Luca full_name: Carturan, Luca last_name: Carturan - first_name: Benjamin full_name: Brock, Benjamin last_name: Brock - first_name: Francesca full_name: Pellicciotti, Francesca id: b28f055a-81ea-11ed-b70c-a9fe7f7b0e70 last_name: Pellicciotti orcid: 0000-0002-5554-8087 citation: ama: Shaw T, Miles ES, McCarthy M, et al. Mountain glaciers recouple to atmospheric warming over the twenty-first century. Nature Climate Change. 2025;15:1212-1218. doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02449-0 apa: Shaw, T., Miles, E. S., McCarthy, M., Buri, P., Guyennon, N., Salerno, F., … Pellicciotti, F. (2025). Mountain glaciers recouple to atmospheric warming over the twenty-first century. Nature Climate Change. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02449-0 chicago: Shaw, Thomas, Evan S. Miles, Michael McCarthy, Pascal Buri, Nicolas Guyennon, Franco Salerno, Luca Carturan, Benjamin Brock, and Francesca Pellicciotti. “Mountain Glaciers Recouple to Atmospheric Warming over the Twenty-First Century.” Nature Climate Change. Springer Nature, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02449-0. ieee: T. Shaw et al., “Mountain glaciers recouple to atmospheric warming over the twenty-first century,” Nature Climate Change, vol. 15. Springer Nature, pp. 1212–1218, 2025. ista: Shaw T, Miles ES, McCarthy M, Buri P, Guyennon N, Salerno F, Carturan L, Brock B, Pellicciotti F. 2025. Mountain glaciers recouple to atmospheric warming over the twenty-first century. Nature Climate Change. 15, 1212–1218. mla: Shaw, Thomas, et al. “Mountain Glaciers Recouple to Atmospheric Warming over the Twenty-First Century.” Nature Climate Change, vol. 15, Springer Nature, 2025, pp. 1212–18, doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02449-0. short: T. Shaw, E.S. Miles, M. McCarthy, P. Buri, N. Guyennon, F. Salerno, L. Carturan, B. Brock, F. Pellicciotti, Nature Climate Change 15 (2025) 1212–1218. corr_author: '1' date_created: 2025-10-16T13:12:49Z date_published: 2025-11-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-01-05T13:36:23Z day: '01' ddc: - '550' department: - _id: FrPe doi: 10.1038/s41558-025-02449-0 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '001591762900001' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 2d79c3fa263999a9f921496430b101e3 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2026-01-05T13:36:14Z date_updated: 2026-01-05T13:36:14Z file_id: '20955' file_name: 2025_NatureClimateChange_Shaw.pdf file_size: 2985402 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2026-01-05T13:36:14Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 15' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '11' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 1212-1218 project: - _id: fc2ed2f7-9c52-11eb-aca3-c01059dda49c call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '101034413' name: 'IST-BRIDGE: International postdoctoral program' publication: Nature Climate Change publication_identifier: eissn: - 1758-6798 issn: - 1758-678X publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' status: public title: Mountain glaciers recouple to atmospheric warming over the twenty-first century tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 15 year: '2025' ... --- DOAJ_listed: '1' OA_place: publisher OA_type: gold PlanS_conform: '1' _id: '20546' abstract: - lang: eng text: Rocky debris covers around 7.3 % of the global glacier area, influencing ice melt rates and the surface mass balance of glaciers, making the dynamics and hydrology of debris-covered glaciers distinct from those of clean-ice glaciers. Accurate representation of debris in models is challenging, as measurements of the physical properties and thickness of the supraglacial debris layer are scarce. Here, we compile a database of measured and reported bulk physical properties and layer thicknesses of supraglacial debris that we call the supraglacial Debris Database (DebDaB) and that is open to community submissions. The majority of the database (90 %) is compiled from 172 sources in the literature, and the remaining 10 % was previously unpublished. DebDaB contains 8741 data entries for supraglacial debris layer thickness, of which 1770 entries also include sub-debris ablation rates, 179 thermal conductivity of debris, 160 aerodynamic surface roughness length, 79 debris albedo, 59 debris emissivity, and 37 debris porosity. The data are distributed over 84 glaciers in 13 regions in the Global Terrestrial Network for Glaciers. We show regional differences in the distribution of debris thickness measurements in DebDaB and fit simplified Østrem curves to 19 glaciers with sufficient debris thickness and ablation data. The data in DebDaB can be used for energy balance, melt, and surface mass balance studies by incorporating site-specific debris properties or for evaluation of remote sensing estimates of debris thickness and surface roughness. They can also help future field campaigns on debris-covered glaciers by identifying observation gaps. DebDaB's uneven spatial coverage points to sampling biases in community efforts to observe debris-covered glaciers, with some regions (e.g. central Europe and South Asia) well-sampled but others having gaps with prevalent debris (e.g. the Andes and Alaska). Debris thickness measurements are mostly concentrated at lower elevations, leaving higher-elevation debris-covered areas undersampled and suggesting that our knowledge of debris properties might not be representative of all elevations. The aims of DebDaB, as an openly available dataset, are to evolve over time, to be updated, and to add to community submissions as new data on supraglacial properties become available. The data described in this paper can be accessed from Zenodo at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14224835 (Groeneveld et al., 2025). acknowledgement: "This work was supported by SNF project RENOIR (“Resolving the thickness of debris on Earth’s glaciers and its rate of change”; grant no. 204322). This project received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and\r\ninnovation programme (grant no. 772751; RAVEN: “Rapid mass losses of debris covered glaciers in High Mountain Asia”). The authors acknowledge DCGWG of IACS for setting the stage and bringing together the debris-covered glacier community to focus on broader needs transcending a specific research topic and for starting the Zenodo community on debris-covered glaciers, where this database is hosted. The authors thank Achim A. Beylich (topical editor), Ken\r\nMankoff (chief editor), Morgan Jones (reviewer), and an anonymous reviewer for their constructive feedback, comments, and discussions on the database and paper." article_processing_charge: Yes article_type: original author: - first_name: Adrià full_name: Fontrodona-Bach, Adrià id: f06891fd-9f42-11ee-8632-a20971c43046 last_name: Fontrodona-Bach - first_name: Lars full_name: Groeneveld, Lars last_name: Groeneveld - first_name: Evan full_name: Miles, Evan last_name: Miles - first_name: Michael full_name: McCarthy, Michael id: 22a2674a-61ce-11ee-94b5-d18813baf16f last_name: McCarthy - first_name: Thomas full_name: Shaw, Thomas id: 3caa3f91-1f03-11ee-96ce-e0e553054d6e last_name: Shaw orcid: 0000-0001-7640-6152 - first_name: Juan Vicente full_name: Melo Velasco, Juan Vicente id: 2611dec0-b9c6-11ed-9bea-a81c2b17a549 last_name: Melo Velasco - first_name: Francesca full_name: Pellicciotti, Francesca id: b28f055a-81ea-11ed-b70c-a9fe7f7b0e70 last_name: Pellicciotti orcid: 0000-0002-5554-8087 citation: ama: 'Fontrodona-Bach A, Groeneveld L, Miles E, et al. DebDaB: A database of supraglacial debris  thickness and physical properties. Earth System Science Data. 2025;17(8):4213-4234. doi:10.5194/essd-17-4213-2025' apa: 'Fontrodona-Bach, A., Groeneveld, L., Miles, E., McCarthy, M., Shaw, T., Melo Velasco, J. V., & Pellicciotti, F. (2025). DebDaB: A database of supraglacial debris  thickness and physical properties. Earth System Science Data. Copernicus Publications. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-4213-2025' chicago: 'Fontrodona-Bach, Adrià, Lars Groeneveld, Evan Miles, Michael McCarthy, Thomas Shaw, Juan Vicente Melo Velasco, and Francesca Pellicciotti. “DebDaB: A Database of Supraglacial Debris  Thickness and Physical Properties.” Earth System Science Data. Copernicus Publications, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-4213-2025.' ieee: 'A. Fontrodona-Bach et al., “DebDaB: A database of supraglacial debris  thickness and physical properties,” Earth System Science Data, vol. 17, no. 8. Copernicus Publications, pp. 4213–4234, 2025.' ista: 'Fontrodona-Bach A, Groeneveld L, Miles E, McCarthy M, Shaw T, Melo Velasco JV, Pellicciotti F. 2025. DebDaB: A database of supraglacial debris  thickness and physical properties. Earth System Science Data. 17(8), 4213–4234.' mla: 'Fontrodona-Bach, Adrià, et al. “DebDaB: A Database of Supraglacial Debris  Thickness and Physical Properties.” Earth System Science Data, vol. 17, no. 8, Copernicus Publications, 2025, pp. 4213–34, doi:10.5194/essd-17-4213-2025.' short: A. Fontrodona-Bach, L. Groeneveld, E. Miles, M. McCarthy, T. Shaw, J.V. Melo Velasco, F. Pellicciotti, Earth System Science Data 17 (2025) 4213–4234. corr_author: '1' date_created: 2025-10-27T08:21:22Z date_published: 2025-08-29T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-12-01T15:05:58Z day: '29' ddc: - '550' department: - _id: FrPe doi: 10.5194/essd-17-4213-2025 external_id: isi: - '001560847000001' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: f77ebb9825f374134a89e0e6311fe188 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2025-10-27T08:38:40Z date_updated: 2025-10-27T08:38:40Z file_id: '20548' file_name: 2025_EarthSystemScienceData_FontrodonaBach.pdf file_size: 3842196 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2025-10-27T08:38:40Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 17' isi: 1 issue: '8' language: - iso: eng month: '08' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 4213-4234 publication: Earth System Science Data publication_identifier: issn: - 1866-3516 publication_status: published publisher: Copernicus Publications quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '20547' relation: research_data status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: 'DebDaB: A database of supraglacial debris thickness and physical properties' tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 17 year: '2025' ... --- OA_place: repository OA_type: gold _id: '20547' abstract: - lang: eng text: "DebdaB is a database of measured and reported physical properties and thickness of supraglacial debris that is openly available and open to community submissions.\r\n\r\nThe majority of the database (90%) is compiled from 172 sources in the literature, and the remaining 10% has not been published before. DebDaB contains 8,286 data entries for supraglacial debris thickness, of which 1,852 entries also include sub-debris ablation rates, 167 data entries of thermal conductivity of debris, 157 of aerodynamic surface roughness length, 77 of debris albedo, 56 of debris emissivity and 37 of debris porosity. The data are distributed over 83 glaciers in 13 regions in the Global Terrestrial Network for Glaciers. " article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Lars full_name: Groeneveld, Lars last_name: Groeneveld - first_name: Adrià full_name: Fontrodona-Bach, Adrià id: f06891fd-9f42-11ee-8632-a20971c43046 last_name: Fontrodona-Bach - first_name: Evan full_name: Miles, Evan last_name: Miles - first_name: Michael full_name: McCarthy, Michael id: 22a2674a-61ce-11ee-94b5-d18813baf16f last_name: McCarthy - first_name: Juan Vicente full_name: Melo Velasco, Juan Vicente id: 2611dec0-b9c6-11ed-9bea-a81c2b17a549 last_name: Melo Velasco - first_name: Thomas full_name: Shaw, Thomas id: 3caa3f91-1f03-11ee-96ce-e0e553054d6e last_name: Shaw orcid: 0000-0001-7640-6152 - first_name: Francesca full_name: Pellicciotti, Francesca id: b28f055a-81ea-11ed-b70c-a9fe7f7b0e70 last_name: Pellicciotti orcid: 0000-0002-5554-8087 - first_name: Andreas full_name: Bauder, Andreas last_name: Bauder - first_name: Pascal full_name: Buri, Pascal last_name: Buri - first_name: Marin full_name: Kneib, Marin last_name: Kneib - first_name: Amit full_name: Kumar, Amit last_name: Kumar - first_name: Aditya full_name: Mishra, Aditya last_name: Mishra - first_name: lene full_name: Petersen, lene last_name: Petersen - first_name: Roman full_name: Renner, Roman last_name: Renner - first_name: Sandro full_name: Schmid, Sandro last_name: Schmid citation: ama: 'Groeneveld L, Fontrodona-Bach A, Miles E, et al. DebDaB: A database of supraglacial debris thickness and physical properties. 2025. doi:10.5281/ZENODO.14224835' apa: 'Groeneveld, L., Fontrodona-Bach, A., Miles, E., McCarthy, M., Melo Velasco, J. V., Shaw, T., … Schmid, S. (2025). DebDaB: A database of supraglacial debris thickness and physical properties. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.14224835' chicago: 'Groeneveld, Lars, Adrià Fontrodona-Bach, Evan Miles, Michael McCarthy, Juan Vicente Melo Velasco, Thomas Shaw, Francesca Pellicciotti, et al. “DebDaB: A Database of Supraglacial Debris Thickness and Physical Properties.” Zenodo, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.14224835.' ieee: 'L. Groeneveld et al., “DebDaB: A database of supraglacial debris thickness and physical properties.” Zenodo, 2025.' ista: 'Groeneveld L, Fontrodona-Bach A, Miles E, McCarthy M, Melo Velasco JV, Shaw T, Pellicciotti F, Bauder A, Buri P, Kneib M, Kumar A, Mishra A, Petersen lene, Renner R, Schmid S. 2025. DebDaB: A database of supraglacial debris thickness and physical properties, Zenodo, 10.5281/ZENODO.14224835.' mla: 'Groeneveld, Lars, et al. DebDaB: A Database of Supraglacial Debris Thickness and Physical Properties. Zenodo, 2025, doi:10.5281/ZENODO.14224835.' short: L. Groeneveld, A. Fontrodona-Bach, E. Miles, M. McCarthy, J.V. Melo Velasco, T. Shaw, F. Pellicciotti, A. Bauder, P. Buri, M. Kneib, A. Kumar, A. Mishra, lene Petersen, R. Renner, S. Schmid, (2025). date_created: 2025-10-27T08:42:09Z date_published: 2025-05-16T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-12-01T15:05:58Z day: '16' ddc: - '550' department: - _id: FrPe doi: 10.5281/ZENODO.14224835 main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15441000 month: '05' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version publisher: Zenodo related_material: record: - id: '20546' relation: used_in_publication status: public status: public title: 'DebDaB: A database of supraglacial debris thickness and physical properties' type: research_data_reference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2025' ... --- APC_amount: 3654 EUR DOAJ_listed: '1' OA_place: publisher OA_type: gold PlanS_conform: '1' _id: '20703' abstract: - lang: eng text: Glacier melt sustains water discharge from mountain basins during droughts, but ongoing glacier retreat threatens this fundamental capacity. Here, we assess the response of glaciers in the Southern Andes to one of the most severe, persistent, and extensive droughts on record in South America (2010-present), and to projected end-of-century megadroughts. Using glacio-hydrological numerical simulations, we show that despite a mean annual precipitation deficit of 36%, glacier runoff in 2010-2019 remained almost unaltered compared to the preceding decade (2000-2009), sustained by a 10% loss of total ice volume. However, simulations of future glacier evolution indicate that annual and summer glacier runoff could decline by up to 20 ± 11% and 48 ± 6%, respectively, during end-of-century megadroughts compared to pre-2010 levels. Our results project a weakening of the glacier’s buffering role against precipitation deficits during extreme droughts, increasing water scarcity for ecosystems and livelihoods in the mountain regions of South America. acknowledgement: 'This research was funded in whole or in part by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), DOI: 10.55776/16891. The project MegaWat has received funding from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI), Dutch Research Council (NWO), National Research Council (CNR) and the European Union’s Horizon Europe Programme under the 2022 Joint Transnational Call of the European Partnership Water4all (Grant Agreement n°101060874). Á.A. acknowledges Fondecyt Postdoc No. 3190732, the WSL programme ‘Extremes’ through the EMERGE project and together with S.M. ANID-CENTROS REGIONALES R20F0008. E.M.C. thanks ANID National Master scholarship year 2020 N°22200599 and the Swiss National Science Foundation Grant 200021_214907. P.A.M. acknowledges support from the Fondecyt project No. 11200142, and ANID/PIA project No AFB230001.' article_number: '860' article_processing_charge: Yes article_type: original author: - first_name: Álvaro full_name: Ayala, Álvaro last_name: Ayala - first_name: Eduardo full_name: Muñoz-Castro, Eduardo last_name: Muñoz-Castro - first_name: Daniel full_name: Farinotti, Daniel last_name: Farinotti - first_name: David full_name: Farías-Barahona, David last_name: Farías-Barahona - first_name: Pablo A. full_name: Mendoza, Pablo A. last_name: Mendoza - first_name: Shelley full_name: Macdonell, Shelley last_name: Macdonell - first_name: James full_name: Mcphee, James last_name: Mcphee - first_name: Ximena full_name: Vargas, Ximena last_name: Vargas - first_name: Francesca full_name: Pellicciotti, Francesca id: b28f055a-81ea-11ed-b70c-a9fe7f7b0e70 last_name: Pellicciotti orcid: 0000-0002-5554-8087 citation: ama: Ayala Á, Muñoz-Castro E, Farinotti D, et al. Less water from glaciers during future megadroughts in the Southern Andes. Communications Earth and Environment. 2025;6. doi:10.1038/s43247-025-02845-6 apa: Ayala, Á., Muñoz-Castro, E., Farinotti, D., Farías-Barahona, D., Mendoza, P. A., Macdonell, S., … Pellicciotti, F. (2025). Less water from glaciers during future megadroughts in the Southern Andes. Communications Earth and Environment. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02845-6 chicago: Ayala, Álvaro, Eduardo Muñoz-Castro, Daniel Farinotti, David Farías-Barahona, Pablo A. Mendoza, Shelley Macdonell, James Mcphee, Ximena Vargas, and Francesca Pellicciotti. “Less Water from Glaciers during Future Megadroughts in the Southern Andes.” Communications Earth and Environment. Springer Nature, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02845-6. ieee: Á. Ayala et al., “Less water from glaciers during future megadroughts in the Southern Andes,” Communications Earth and Environment, vol. 6. Springer Nature, 2025. ista: Ayala Á, Muñoz-Castro E, Farinotti D, Farías-Barahona D, Mendoza PA, Macdonell S, Mcphee J, Vargas X, Pellicciotti F. 2025. Less water from glaciers during future megadroughts in the Southern Andes. Communications Earth and Environment. 6, 860. mla: Ayala, Álvaro, et al. “Less Water from Glaciers during Future Megadroughts in the Southern Andes.” Communications Earth and Environment, vol. 6, 860, Springer Nature, 2025, doi:10.1038/s43247-025-02845-6. short: Á. Ayala, E. Muñoz-Castro, D. Farinotti, D. Farías-Barahona, P.A. Mendoza, S. Macdonell, J. Mcphee, X. Vargas, F. Pellicciotti, Communications Earth and Environment 6 (2025). date_created: 2025-11-30T23:02:06Z date_published: 2025-12-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-05-20T08:02:48Z day: '01' ddc: - '550' department: - _id: FrPe doi: 10.1038/s43247-025-02845-6 external_id: isi: - '001617609200003' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 1b23ad585d6f305447b54c606be0c46d content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2025-12-01T09:10:13Z date_updated: 2025-12-01T09:10:13Z file_id: '20720' file_name: 2025_CommEarthEnvir_Ayala.pdf file_size: 2468843 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2025-12-01T09:10:13Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 6' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '12' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 8e4c5b0b-16d5-11f0-9cad-9fa5f341393c grant_number: I06891 name: Megadroughts in the Water towers of Europe - from process understanding to strategies for - _id: 3AC91DDA-15DF-11EA-824D-93A3E7B544D1 call_identifier: FWF name: FWF Open Access Fund publication: Communications Earth and Environment publication_identifier: eissn: - 2662-4435 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' related_material: link: - description: News on ISTA website relation: press_release url: https://ista.ac.at/en/news/the-future-fate-of-water-in-the-andes/ scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Less water from glaciers during future megadroughts in the Southern Andes tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 6 year: '2025' ... --- _id: '14885' abstract: - lang: eng text: The near-surface boundary layer can mediate the response of mountain glaciers to external climate, cooling the overlying air and promoting a density-driven glacier wind. The fundamental processes are conceptually well understood, though the magnitudes of cooling and presence of glacier winds are poorly quantified in space and time, increasing the forcing uncertainty for melt models. We utilize a new data set of on-glacier meteorological measurements on three neighboring glaciers in the Swiss Alps to explore their distinct response to regional climate under the extreme 2022 summer. We find that synoptic wind origins and local terrain modifications, not only glacier size, play an important role in the ability of a glacier to cool the near-surface air. Warm air intrusions from valley or synoptically-driven winds onto the glacier can occur between ∼19% and 64% of the time and contribute between 3% and 81% of the total sensible heat flux to the surface during warm afternoon hours, depending on the fetch of the glacier flowline and its susceptibility to boundary layer erosion. In the context of extreme summer warmth, indicative of future conditions, the boundary layer cooling (up to 6.5°C cooler than its surroundings) and resultant katabatic wind flow are highly heterogeneous between the study glaciers, highlighting the complex and likely non-linear response of glaciers to an uncertain future. acknowledgement: This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 101026058. The authors acknowledge the invaluable field assistance of Marta Corrà, Achille Jouberton, Marin Kneib, Stefan Fugger, Celine Ducret and Alexander Groos. The authors would also like to thank Luca Carturan for advice regarding AWS setup and maintenance and Simone Fatichi for provision and support in the use of the Tethys-Chloris model. Open access funding provided by ETH-Bereich Forschungsanstalten. article_number: e2023JD040214 article_processing_charge: Yes (in subscription journal) article_type: original author: - first_name: Thomas full_name: Shaw, Thomas id: 3caa3f91-1f03-11ee-96ce-e0e553054d6e last_name: Shaw orcid: 0000-0001-7640-6152 - first_name: Pascal full_name: Buri, Pascal id: 317987aa-9421-11ee-ac5a-b941b041abba last_name: Buri - first_name: Michael full_name: Mccarthy, Michael id: 22a2674a-61ce-11ee-94b5-d18813baf16f last_name: Mccarthy - first_name: Evan S. full_name: Miles, Evan S. last_name: Miles - first_name: Francesca full_name: Pellicciotti, Francesca id: b28f055a-81ea-11ed-b70c-a9fe7f7b0e70 last_name: Pellicciotti orcid: 0000-0002-5554-8087 citation: ama: 'Shaw T, Buri P, McCarthy M, Miles ES, Pellicciotti F. Local controls on near-surface glacier cooling under warm atmospheric conditions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2024;129(2). doi:10.1029/2023JD040214' apa: 'Shaw, T., Buri, P., McCarthy, M., Miles, E. S., & Pellicciotti, F. (2024). Local controls on near-surface glacier cooling under warm atmospheric conditions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD040214' chicago: 'Shaw, Thomas, Pascal Buri, Michael McCarthy, Evan S. Miles, and Francesca Pellicciotti. “Local Controls on Near-Surface Glacier Cooling under Warm Atmospheric Conditions.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. Wiley, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD040214.' ieee: 'T. Shaw, P. Buri, M. McCarthy, E. S. Miles, and F. Pellicciotti, “Local controls on near-surface glacier cooling under warm atmospheric conditions,” Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, vol. 129, no. 2. Wiley, 2024.' ista: 'Shaw T, Buri P, McCarthy M, Miles ES, Pellicciotti F. 2024. Local controls on near-surface glacier cooling under warm atmospheric conditions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 129(2), e2023JD040214.' mla: 'Shaw, Thomas, et al. “Local Controls on Near-Surface Glacier Cooling under Warm Atmospheric Conditions.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, vol. 129, no. 2, e2023JD040214, Wiley, 2024, doi:10.1029/2023JD040214.' short: 'T. Shaw, P. Buri, M. McCarthy, E.S. Miles, F. Pellicciotti, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 129 (2024).' corr_author: '1' date_created: 2024-01-28T23:01:42Z date_published: 2024-01-28T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-09-04T11:58:38Z day: '28' ddc: - '550' department: - _id: FrPe doi: 10.1029/2023JD040214 external_id: isi: - '001146838000001' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: cad5b93caadb40c14e5faedc34f7bba7 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2024-02-06T08:38:27Z date_updated: 2024-02-06T08:38:27Z file_id: '14943' file_name: 2024_JGRAtmospheres_Shaw.pdf file_size: 7481087 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2024-02-06T08:38:27Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 129' isi: 1 issue: '2' language: - iso: eng month: '01' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version publication: 'Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres' publication_identifier: eissn: - 2169-8996 issn: - 2169-897X publication_status: published publisher: Wiley quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '14919' relation: research_data status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Local controls on near-surface glacier cooling under warm atmospheric conditions tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345 volume: 129 year: '2024' ... --- _id: '14938' abstract: - lang: eng text: High elevation headwater catchments are complex hydrological systems that seasonally buffer water and release it in the form of snow and ice melt, modulating downstream runoff regimes and water availability. In High Mountain Asia (HMA), where a wide range of climates from semi-arid to monsoonal exist, the importance of the cryospheric contributions to the water budget varies with the amount and seasonal distribution of precipitation. Losses due to evapotranspiration and sublimation are to date largely unquantified components of the water budget in such catchments, although they can be comparable in magnitude to glacier melt contributions to streamflow. 
Here, we simulate the hydrology of three high elevation headwater catchments in distinct climates in HMA over 10 years using an ecohydrological model geared towards high-mountain areas including snow and glaciers, forced with reanalysis data. 
Our results show that evapotranspiration and sublimation together are most important at the semi-arid site, Kyzylsu, on the northernmost slopes of the Pamir mountain range. Here, the evaporative loss amounts to 28% of the water throughput, which we define as the total water added to, or removed from the water balance within a year. In comparison, evaporative losses are 19% at the Central Himalayan site Langtang and 13% at the wettest site, 24K, on the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau. At the three sites, respectively, sublimation removes 15%, 13% and 6% of snowfall, while evapotranspiration removes the equivalent of 76%, 28% and 19% of rainfall. In absolute terms, and across a comparable elevation range, the highest ET flux is 413 mm yr-1 at 24K, while the highest sublimation flux is 91 mm yr-1 at Kyzylsu. During warm and dry years, glacier melt was found to only partially compensate for the annual supply deficit. acknowledgement: "We would like to thank the team at the Center for the Research of Glaciers, Tajik National Academy of Sciences, Abduhamid Kayumov, Khusrav Kabutov, Ardamehr Halimov, among others, for their invaluable support over multiple field seasons in Kyzylsu. We thank Wei Yang, Zhao Xhuanxi and Zhen Cheng from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, for facilitating and supporting fieldwork and for sharing crucial data from the Parlung 24K catchment. We thank Reeju Shrestha and Himalayan Research Expeditions for their great support in Langtang. We extend our thanks to Jakob Steiner and the team at ICIMOD for their relentless efforts in data acquisition and curation in Langtang. Additionally, we are indebted to Masashi Niwano from the Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, for providing NHM atmospheric simulation outputs, which proved very valuable in the downscaling process.\r\nThis project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program Grant Agreements No. 772751 (RAVEN, Rapid mass losses of debris-covered glaciers in High Mountain Asia). Further funding was provided by JSPS-SNSF (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and Swiss National Science Foundation) Bilateral Programmes project (HOPE, High-elevation precipitation in High Mountain Asia; Grant 183633). Fieldwork support for Tajikistan was received from the Swiss Polar Institute Flagship Programme PAMIR, SPI-FLAG-2021-001. The project also received funding from the ESA and NRSCC Dragon 5 cooperation project 'Cryosphere-hydrosphere interactions of the Asian water towers: using remote sensing to drive hyper-resolution ecohydrological modeling' (grant no. 59199). The National Natural Science Foundation of China (41961134035) financially supported the data collection at 24K." article_number: '044057' article_processing_charge: Yes article_type: original author: - first_name: Stefan full_name: Fugger, Stefan id: 86698d64-c4c6-11ee-af02-cdf1e6a7d31f last_name: Fugger - first_name: Thomas full_name: Shaw, Thomas id: 3caa3f91-1f03-11ee-96ce-e0e553054d6e last_name: Shaw orcid: 0000-0001-7640-6152 - first_name: Achille full_name: Jouberton, Achille last_name: Jouberton - first_name: Evan full_name: Miles, Evan last_name: Miles - first_name: Pascal full_name: Buri, Pascal id: 317987aa-9421-11ee-ac5a-b941b041abba last_name: Buri - first_name: Michael full_name: McCarthy, Michael id: 22a2674a-61ce-11ee-94b5-d18813baf16f last_name: McCarthy - first_name: Catriona Louise full_name: Fyffe, Catriona Louise id: 001b0422-8d15-11ed-bc51-cab6c037a228 last_name: Fyffe - first_name: Simone full_name: Fatichi, Simone last_name: Fatichi - first_name: Marin full_name: Kneib, Marin last_name: Kneib - first_name: Peter full_name: Molnar, Peter last_name: Molnar - first_name: Francesca full_name: Pellicciotti, Francesca id: b28f055a-81ea-11ed-b70c-a9fe7f7b0e70 last_name: Pellicciotti orcid: 0000-0002-5554-8087 citation: ama: Fugger S, Shaw T, Jouberton A, et al. Hydrological regimes and evaporative flux partitioning at the climatic ends of High Mountain Asia. Environmental Research Letters. 2024;19. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ad25a0 apa: Fugger, S., Shaw, T., Jouberton, A., Miles, E., Buri, P., McCarthy, M., … Pellicciotti, F. (2024). Hydrological regimes and evaporative flux partitioning at the climatic ends of High Mountain Asia. Environmental Research Letters. IOP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad25a0 chicago: Fugger, Stefan, Thomas Shaw, Achille Jouberton, Evan Miles, Pascal Buri, Michael McCarthy, Catriona Louise Fyffe, et al. “Hydrological Regimes and Evaporative Flux Partitioning at the Climatic Ends of High Mountain Asia.” Environmental Research Letters. IOP Publishing, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad25a0. ieee: S. Fugger et al., “Hydrological regimes and evaporative flux partitioning at the climatic ends of High Mountain Asia,” Environmental Research Letters, vol. 19. IOP Publishing, 2024. ista: Fugger S, Shaw T, Jouberton A, Miles E, Buri P, McCarthy M, Fyffe CL, Fatichi S, Kneib M, Molnar P, Pellicciotti F. 2024. Hydrological regimes and evaporative flux partitioning at the climatic ends of High Mountain Asia. Environmental Research Letters. 19, 044057. mla: Fugger, Stefan, et al. “Hydrological Regimes and Evaporative Flux Partitioning at the Climatic Ends of High Mountain Asia.” Environmental Research Letters, vol. 19, 044057, IOP Publishing, 2024, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ad25a0. short: S. Fugger, T. Shaw, A. Jouberton, E. Miles, P. Buri, M. McCarthy, C.L. Fyffe, S. Fatichi, M. Kneib, P. Molnar, F. Pellicciotti, Environmental Research Letters 19 (2024). corr_author: '1' date_created: 2024-02-05T09:01:11Z date_published: 2024-04-09T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-09-04T11:57:57Z day: '09' ddc: - '550' department: - _id: FrPe doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad25a0 external_id: isi: - '001198892300001' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 27999359b51c30fec6d81e48cdf0ee0d content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2024-07-22T09:14:44Z date_updated: 2024-07-22T09:14:44Z file_id: '17295' file_name: 2024_EnvironmResearch_Fugger.pdf file_size: 4433401 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2024-07-22T09:14:44Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 19' isi: 1 keyword: - Public Health - Environmental and Occupational Health - General Environmental Science - Renewable Energy - Sustainability and the Environment language: - iso: eng month: '04' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version publication: Environmental Research Letters publication_identifier: issn: - 1748-9326 publication_status: published publisher: IOP Publishing quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Hydrological regimes and evaporative flux partitioning at the climatic ends of High Mountain Asia tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345 volume: 19 year: '2024' ... --- _id: '15298' abstract: - lang: eng text: Mountains are important suppliers of freshwater to downstream areas, affecting large populations in particular in High Mountain Asia (HMA). Yet, the propagation of water from HMA headwaters to downstream areas is not fully understood, as interactions in the mountain water cycle between the cryo-, hydro- and biosphere remain elusive. We review the definition of blue and green water fluxes as liquid water that contributes to runoff at the outlet of the selected domain (blue) and water lost to the atmosphere through vapor fluxes, that is evaporation from water, ground, and interception plus transpiration (green) and propose to add the term white water to account for the (often neglected) evaporation and sublimation from snow and ice. We provide an assessment of models that can simulate the cryo-hydro-biosphere continuum and the interactions between spheres in high mountain catchments, going beyond disciplinary separations. Land surface models are uniquely able to account for such complexity, since they solve the coupled fluxes of water, energy, and carbon between the land surface and atmosphere. Due to the mechanistic nature of such models, specific variables can be compared systematically to independent remote sensing observations – providing vital insights into model accuracy and enabling the understanding of the complex watersheds of HMA. We discuss recent developments in spaceborne earth observation products that have the potential to support catchment modeling in high mountain regions. We then present a pilot study application of the mechanistic land surface model Tethys & Chloris to a glacierized watershed in the Nepalese Himalayas and discuss the use of high-resolution earth observation data to constrain the meteorological forcing uncertainty and validate model results. We use these insights to highlight the remaining challenges and future opportunities that remote sensing data presents for land surface modeling in HMA. acknowledgement: 'This work was supported by the ESA and NRSCC Dragon 5 cooperation project “Cryosphere-hydrosphere interactions of the Asian water towers: using remote sensing to drive hyper-resolution ecohydrological modelling” [Grant no. 59199]. PB and FP acknowledge funding from the SNSF (High-elevation precipitation in High Mountain Asia, HOPE)) [Grant no. 183633]. ESM, MK, SFu and FP acknowledge funding from the ERC under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Rapid mass losses of debris-covered glaciers in High Mountain Asia, RAVEN) [Grant no. 772751]. LJ, CZ and MMe acknowledge the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program (STEP) [grant no. 2019QZKK010308, no. 2019QZKK0206], the National Natural Science Foundation of China projects (Grant no. 42171039, no. 91737205), the Chinese Academy of Sciences President’s International Fellowship Initiative [Grant no. 2020VTA0001], and the MOST High-Level Foreign Expert Program [Grant no. G2022055010L].' article_processing_charge: Yes article_type: original author: - first_name: Pascal full_name: Buri, Pascal last_name: Buri - first_name: Simone full_name: Fatichi, Simone last_name: Fatichi - first_name: Thomas full_name: Shaw, Thomas id: 3caa3f91-1f03-11ee-96ce-e0e553054d6e last_name: Shaw orcid: 0000-0001-7640-6152 - first_name: Catriona Louise full_name: Fyffe, Catriona Louise id: 001b0422-8d15-11ed-bc51-cab6c037a228 last_name: Fyffe - first_name: Evan S. full_name: Miles, Evan S. last_name: Miles - first_name: Michael full_name: Mccarthy, Michael id: 22a2674a-61ce-11ee-94b5-d18813baf16f last_name: Mccarthy - first_name: Marin full_name: Kneib, Marin last_name: Kneib - first_name: Shaoting full_name: Ren, Shaoting last_name: Ren - first_name: Achille full_name: Jouberton, Achille last_name: Jouberton - first_name: Stefan full_name: Fugger, Stefan last_name: Fugger - first_name: Li full_name: Jia, Li last_name: Jia - first_name: Jing full_name: Zhang, Jing last_name: Zhang - first_name: Cong full_name: Shen, Cong last_name: Shen - first_name: Chaolei full_name: Zheng, Chaolei last_name: Zheng - first_name: Massimo full_name: Menenti, Massimo last_name: Menenti - first_name: Francesca full_name: Pellicciotti, Francesca id: b28f055a-81ea-11ed-b70c-a9fe7f7b0e70 last_name: Pellicciotti orcid: 0000-0002-5554-8087 citation: ama: 'Buri P, Fatichi S, Shaw T, et al. Land surface modeling informed by earth observation data: Toward understanding blue–green–white water fluxes in High Mountain Asia. Geo-Spatial Information Science. 2024;27(3):703-727. doi:10.1080/10095020.2024.2330546' apa: 'Buri, P., Fatichi, S., Shaw, T., Fyffe, C. L., Miles, E. S., McCarthy, M., … Pellicciotti, F. (2024). Land surface modeling informed by earth observation data: Toward understanding blue–green–white water fluxes in High Mountain Asia. Geo-Spatial Information Science. Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.1080/10095020.2024.2330546' chicago: 'Buri, Pascal, Simone Fatichi, Thomas Shaw, Catriona Louise Fyffe, Evan S. Miles, Michael McCarthy, Marin Kneib, et al. “Land Surface Modeling Informed by Earth Observation Data: Toward Understanding Blue–Green–White Water Fluxes in High Mountain Asia.” Geo-Spatial Information Science. Taylor & Francis, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1080/10095020.2024.2330546.' ieee: 'P. Buri et al., “Land surface modeling informed by earth observation data: Toward understanding blue–green–white water fluxes in High Mountain Asia,” Geo-Spatial Information Science, vol. 27, no. 3. Taylor & Francis, pp. 703–727, 2024.' ista: 'Buri P, Fatichi S, Shaw T, Fyffe CL, Miles ES, McCarthy M, Kneib M, Ren S, Jouberton A, Fugger S, Jia L, Zhang J, Shen C, Zheng C, Menenti M, Pellicciotti F. 2024. Land surface modeling informed by earth observation data: Toward understanding blue–green–white water fluxes in High Mountain Asia. Geo-Spatial Information Science. 27(3), 703–727.' mla: 'Buri, Pascal, et al. “Land Surface Modeling Informed by Earth Observation Data: Toward Understanding Blue–Green–White Water Fluxes in High Mountain Asia.” Geo-Spatial Information Science, vol. 27, no. 3, Taylor & Francis, 2024, pp. 703–27, doi:10.1080/10095020.2024.2330546.' short: P. Buri, S. Fatichi, T. Shaw, C.L. Fyffe, E.S. Miles, M. McCarthy, M. Kneib, S. Ren, A. Jouberton, S. Fugger, L. Jia, J. Zhang, C. Shen, C. Zheng, M. Menenti, F. Pellicciotti, Geo-Spatial Information Science 27 (2024) 703–727. date_created: 2024-04-07T22:00:56Z date_published: 2024-03-22T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-09-04T13:28:38Z day: '22' ddc: - '550' department: - _id: FrPe doi: 10.1080/10095020.2024.2330546 external_id: isi: - '001189470100001' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: afbfc4e9f1bf2a00711efc30ad667c40 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2024-07-29T11:34:54Z date_updated: 2024-07-29T11:34:54Z file_id: '17342' file_name: 2024_GeoSpatialInfo_Buri.pdf file_size: 15678450 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2024-07-29T11:34:54Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 27' isi: 1 issue: '3' language: - iso: eng month: '03' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 703-727 publication: Geo-Spatial Information Science publication_identifier: issn: - 1009-5020 publication_status: published publisher: Taylor & Francis quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: 'Land surface modeling informed by earth observation data: Toward understanding blue–green–white water fluxes in High Mountain Asia' tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345 volume: 27 year: '2024' ... --- _id: '14487' abstract: - lang: eng text: High Mountain Asia (HMA) is among the most vulnerable water towers globally and yet future projections of water availability in and from its high-mountain catchments remain uncertain, as their hydrologic response to ongoing environmental changes is complex. Mechanistic modeling approaches incorporating cryospheric, hydrological, and vegetation processes in high spatial, temporal, and physical detail have never been applied for high-elevation catchments of HMA. We use a land surface model at high spatial and temporal resolution (100 m and hourly) to simulate the coupled dynamics of energy, water, and vegetation for the 350 km2 Langtang catchment (Nepal). We compare our model outputs for one hydrological year against a large set of observations to gain insight into the partitioning of the water balance at the subseasonal scale and across elevation bands. During the simulated hydrological year, we find that evapotranspiration is a key component of the total water balance, as it causes about the equivalent of 20% of all the available precipitation or 154% of the water production from glacier melt in the basin to return directly to the atmosphere. The depletion of the cryospheric water budget is dominated by snow melt, but at high elevations is primarily dictated by snow and ice sublimation. Snow sublimation is the dominant vapor flux (49%) at the catchment scale, accounting for the equivalent of 11% of snowfall, 17% of snowmelt, and 75% of ice melt, respectively. We conclude that simulations should consider sublimation and other evaporative fluxes explicitly, as otherwise water balance estimates can be ill-quantified. acknowledgement: This project has received funding from the JSPS-SNSF (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and Swiss National Science Foundation) Bilateral Programmes project (HOPE, High-ele-vation precipitation in High Mountain Asia; Grant 183633), and the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (RAVEN, Rapid mass losses of debris-covered glaciers in High Mountain Asia; Grant 772751). We want to thank in particular T. Gurung, S. Joshi, J. Shea, W. Immerzeel, and others involved, as well as ICIMOD, for their efforts over the past years in observing the meteorology of the Langtang catchment, collecting and organizing the data and making them publicly available. We also thank the National Geographic Society (Grant NGS-61784R-19) and the Mount Everest Foundation (reference 19-24) for providing fieldwork funding for C. L. Fyffe. We thank T. Kramer for help with the WSL Hyperion cluster. We are grate-ful for comments by three anonymous reviewers and the Associate Editor, who greatly helped to improve the manuscript further. Open access funding provided by ETH-Bereich Forschungsanstalten. article_number: e2022WR033841 article_processing_charge: Yes (via OA deal) article_type: original author: - first_name: Pascal full_name: Buri, Pascal last_name: Buri - first_name: Simone full_name: Fatichi, Simone last_name: Fatichi - first_name: Thomas full_name: Shaw, Thomas id: 3caa3f91-1f03-11ee-96ce-e0e553054d6e last_name: Shaw orcid: 0000-0001-7640-6152 - first_name: Evan S. full_name: Miles, Evan S. last_name: Miles - first_name: Michael full_name: Mccarthy, Michael id: 22a2674a-61ce-11ee-94b5-d18813baf16f last_name: Mccarthy - first_name: Catriona Louise full_name: Fyffe, Catriona Louise id: 001b0422-8d15-11ed-bc51-cab6c037a228 last_name: Fyffe - first_name: Stefan full_name: Fugger, Stefan last_name: Fugger - first_name: Shaoting full_name: Ren, Shaoting last_name: Ren - first_name: Marin full_name: Kneib, Marin last_name: Kneib - first_name: Achille full_name: Jouberton, Achille last_name: Jouberton - first_name: Jakob full_name: Steiner, Jakob last_name: Steiner - first_name: Koji full_name: Fujita, Koji last_name: Fujita - first_name: Francesca full_name: Pellicciotti, Francesca id: b28f055a-81ea-11ed-b70c-a9fe7f7b0e70 last_name: Pellicciotti orcid: 0000-0002-5554-8087 citation: ama: 'Buri P, Fatichi S, Shaw T, et al. Land surface modeling in the Himalayas: On the importance of evaporative fluxes for the water balance of a high-elevation catchment. Water Resources Research. 2023;59(10). doi:10.1029/2022WR033841' apa: 'Buri, P., Fatichi, S., Shaw, T., Miles, E. S., McCarthy, M., Fyffe, C. L., … Pellicciotti, F. (2023). Land surface modeling in the Himalayas: On the importance of evaporative fluxes for the water balance of a high-elevation catchment. Water Resources Research. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR033841' chicago: 'Buri, Pascal, Simone Fatichi, Thomas Shaw, Evan S. Miles, Michael McCarthy, Catriona Louise Fyffe, Stefan Fugger, et al. “Land Surface Modeling in the Himalayas: On the Importance of Evaporative Fluxes for the Water Balance of a High-Elevation Catchment.” Water Resources Research. Wiley, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR033841.' ieee: 'P. Buri et al., “Land surface modeling in the Himalayas: On the importance of evaporative fluxes for the water balance of a high-elevation catchment,” Water Resources Research, vol. 59, no. 10. Wiley, 2023.' ista: 'Buri P, Fatichi S, Shaw T, Miles ES, McCarthy M, Fyffe CL, Fugger S, Ren S, Kneib M, Jouberton A, Steiner J, Fujita K, Pellicciotti F. 2023. Land surface modeling in the Himalayas: On the importance of evaporative fluxes for the water balance of a high-elevation catchment. Water Resources Research. 59(10), e2022WR033841.' mla: 'Buri, Pascal, et al. “Land Surface Modeling in the Himalayas: On the Importance of Evaporative Fluxes for the Water Balance of a High-Elevation Catchment.” Water Resources Research, vol. 59, no. 10, e2022WR033841, Wiley, 2023, doi:10.1029/2022WR033841.' short: P. Buri, S. Fatichi, T. Shaw, E.S. Miles, M. McCarthy, C.L. Fyffe, S. Fugger, S. Ren, M. Kneib, A. Jouberton, J. Steiner, K. Fujita, F. Pellicciotti, Water Resources Research 59 (2023). date_created: 2023-11-05T23:00:53Z date_published: 2023-10-25T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-09-09T13:15:40Z day: '25' ddc: - '550' department: - _id: FrPe doi: 10.1029/2022WR033841 external_id: isi: - '001091989600005' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 7ba9c87228dc09029b16bc800a0ef1a1 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2023-11-07T08:10:44Z date_updated: 2023-11-07T08:10:44Z file_id: '14495' file_name: 2023_WaterResourcesResearch_Buri.pdf file_size: 5554901 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2023-11-07T08:10:44Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 59' isi: 1 issue: '10' language: - iso: eng license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ month: '10' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version publication: Water Resources Research publication_identifier: eissn: - 1944-7973 issn: - 0043-1397 publication_status: published publisher: Wiley quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '14494' relation: research_data status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: 'Land surface modeling in the Himalayas: On the importance of evaporative fluxes for the water balance of a high-elevation catchment' tmp: image: /images/cc_by_nc_nd.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) short: CC BY-NC-ND (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345 volume: 59 year: '2023' ... --- _id: '14494' abstract: - lang: eng text: "We provide i) gridded initial conditions (.tif), ii) modeled gridded monthly outputs (.tif), and iii) modeled hourly outputs at the station locations (.txt) for the hydrological year 2019. Information about the variables and units can be found in the figures (.png) associated to each dataset. Details about the datasets can be found in the original publication by Buri and others (2023).\r\n\r\nBuri, P., Fatichi, S., Shaw, T. E., Miles, E. S., McCarthy, M. J., Fyffe, C. L., ... & Pellicciotti, F. (2023). Land Surface Modeling in the Himalayas: On the Importance of Evaporative Fluxes for the Water Balance of a High‐Elevation Catchment. Water Resources Research, 59(10), e2022WR033841. DOI: 10.1029/2022WR033841" article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Pascal full_name: Buri, Pascal last_name: Buri - first_name: Simone full_name: Fatichi, Simone last_name: Fatichi - first_name: Thomas full_name: Shaw, Thomas id: 3caa3f91-1f03-11ee-96ce-e0e553054d6e last_name: Shaw orcid: 0000-0001-7640-6152 - first_name: 'Evan ' full_name: 'Miles, Evan ' last_name: Miles - first_name: Michael full_name: McCarthy, Michael id: 22a2674a-61ce-11ee-94b5-d18813baf16f last_name: McCarthy - first_name: Catriona Louise full_name: Fyffe, Catriona Louise id: 001b0422-8d15-11ed-bc51-cab6c037a228 last_name: Fyffe - first_name: Stefan full_name: Fugger, Stefan last_name: Fugger - first_name: Shaoting full_name: Ren, Shaoting last_name: Ren - first_name: Marin full_name: Kneib, Marin last_name: Kneib - first_name: Achille full_name: Jouberton, Achille last_name: Jouberton - first_name: Jakob full_name: Steiner, Jakob last_name: Steiner - first_name: Koji full_name: Fujita, Koji last_name: Fujita - first_name: Francesca full_name: Pellicciotti, Francesca id: b28f055a-81ea-11ed-b70c-a9fe7f7b0e70 last_name: Pellicciotti orcid: 0000-0002-5554-8087 citation: ama: 'Buri P, Fatichi S, Shaw T, et al. Model output data to “Land surface modeling in the Himalayas: on the importance of evaporative fluxes for the water balance of a high elevation catchment.” 2023. doi:10.5281/ZENODO.8402426' apa: 'Buri, P., Fatichi, S., Shaw, T., Miles, E., McCarthy, M., Fyffe, C. L., … Pellicciotti, F. (2023). Model output data to “Land surface modeling in the Himalayas: on the importance of evaporative fluxes for the water balance of a high elevation catchment.” Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.8402426' chicago: 'Buri, Pascal, Simone Fatichi, Thomas Shaw, Evan Miles, Michael McCarthy, Catriona Louise Fyffe, Stefan Fugger, et al. “Model Output Data to ‘Land Surface Modeling in the Himalayas: On the Importance of Evaporative Fluxes for the Water Balance of a High Elevation Catchment.’” Zenodo, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.8402426.' ieee: 'P. Buri et al., “Model output data to ‘Land surface modeling in the Himalayas: on the importance of evaporative fluxes for the water balance of a high elevation catchment.’” Zenodo, 2023.' ista: 'Buri P, Fatichi S, Shaw T, Miles E, McCarthy M, Fyffe CL, Fugger S, Ren S, Kneib M, Jouberton A, Steiner J, Fujita K, Pellicciotti F. 2023. Model output data to ‘Land surface modeling in the Himalayas: on the importance of evaporative fluxes for the water balance of a high elevation catchment’, Zenodo, 10.5281/ZENODO.8402426.' mla: 'Buri, Pascal, et al. Model Output Data to “Land Surface Modeling in the Himalayas: On the Importance of Evaporative Fluxes for the Water Balance of a High Elevation Catchment.” Zenodo, 2023, doi:10.5281/ZENODO.8402426.' short: P. Buri, S. Fatichi, T. Shaw, E. Miles, M. McCarthy, C.L. Fyffe, S. Fugger, S. Ren, M. Kneib, A. Jouberton, J. Steiner, K. Fujita, F. Pellicciotti, (2023). date_created: 2023-11-07T08:01:39Z date_published: 2023-10-03T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-09-09T13:15:39Z day: '03' ddc: - '550' department: - _id: FrPe doi: 10.5281/ZENODO.8402426 has_accepted_license: '1' license: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://10.5281/ZENODO.8402426 month: '10' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version publisher: Zenodo related_material: record: - id: '14487' relation: used_in_publication status: public status: public title: 'Model output data to "Land surface modeling in the Himalayas: on the importance of evaporative fluxes for the water balance of a high elevation catchment"' tmp: image: /images/cc_0.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0 1.0) short: CC0 (1.0) type: research_data_reference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2023' ... --- APC_amount: 4800 EUR OA_place: publisher OA_type: hybrid _id: '14659' abstract: - lang: eng text: Understanding the response of Himalayan glaciers to global warming is vital because of their role as a water source for the Asian subcontinent. However, great uncertainties still exist on the climate drivers of past and present glacier changes across scales. Here, we analyse continuous hourly climate station data from a glacierized elevation (Pyramid station, Mount Everest) since 1994 together with other ground observations and climate reanalysis. We show that a decrease in maximum air temperature and precipitation occurred during the last three decades at Pyramid in response to global warming. Reanalysis data suggest a broader occurrence of this effect in the glacierized areas of the Himalaya. We hypothesize that the counterintuitive cooling is caused by enhanced sensible heat exchange and the associated increase in glacier katabatic wind, which draws cool air downward from higher elevations. The stronger katabatic winds have also lowered the elevation of local wind convergence, thereby diminishing precipitation in glacial areas and negatively affecting glacier mass balance. This local cooling may have partially preserved glaciers from melting and could help protect the periglacial environment. acknowledgement: This work was carried out within the framework of the EV-K2-CNR and Nepal Academy of Science and Technology. K.Y. was supported by the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program (grant no. 2019QZKK0206). N.C. was supported by the project NODES, which has received funding from the MUR–M4C2 1.5 of PNRR funded by the European Union - NextGeneration EU (Grant agreement no. ECS00000036). T.E.S. has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant no. 101026058. F.P. has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme grant no. 772751, RAVEN, ‘Rapid mass losses of debris-covered glaciers in High Mountain Asia’ and has been supported by the SNSF grant ‘High-elevation precipitation in High Mountain Asia’ (grant no. 183633). A.A. was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement no. 101004156 (CONFESS project) and by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation program under grant agreement no. 101081193 (OptimESM project). We thank H. Wehrli for valuable comments and suggestions and J. Giannitrapani for the graphic support. We thank A. Da Polenza and K. Bista of EV-K2-CNR for believing that studying the high elevations is relevant for the whole globe. article_processing_charge: Yes (in subscription journal) article_type: original author: - first_name: Franco full_name: Salerno, Franco last_name: Salerno - first_name: Nicolas full_name: Guyennon, Nicolas last_name: Guyennon - first_name: Kun full_name: Yang, Kun last_name: Yang - first_name: Thomas full_name: Shaw, Thomas id: 3caa3f91-1f03-11ee-96ce-e0e553054d6e last_name: Shaw orcid: 0000-0001-7640-6152 - first_name: Changgui full_name: Lin, Changgui last_name: Lin - first_name: Nicola full_name: Colombo, Nicola last_name: Colombo - first_name: Emanuele full_name: Romano, Emanuele last_name: Romano - first_name: Stephan full_name: Gruber, Stephan last_name: Gruber - first_name: Tobias full_name: Bolch, Tobias last_name: Bolch - first_name: Andrea full_name: Alessandri, Andrea last_name: Alessandri - first_name: Paolo full_name: Cristofanelli, Paolo last_name: Cristofanelli - first_name: Davide full_name: Putero, Davide last_name: Putero - first_name: Guglielmina full_name: Diolaiuti, Guglielmina last_name: Diolaiuti - first_name: Gianni full_name: Tartari, Gianni last_name: Tartari - first_name: Gianpietro full_name: Verza, Gianpietro last_name: Verza - first_name: Sudeep full_name: Thakuri, Sudeep last_name: Thakuri - first_name: Gianpaolo full_name: Balsamo, Gianpaolo last_name: Balsamo - first_name: Evan S. full_name: Miles, Evan S. last_name: Miles - first_name: Francesca full_name: Pellicciotti, Francesca id: b28f055a-81ea-11ed-b70c-a9fe7f7b0e70 last_name: Pellicciotti orcid: 0000-0002-5554-8087 citation: ama: Salerno F, Guyennon N, Yang K, et al. Local cooling and drying induced by Himalayan glaciers under global warming. Nature Geoscience. 2023;16:1120-1127. doi:10.1038/s41561-023-01331-y apa: Salerno, F., Guyennon, N., Yang, K., Shaw, T., Lin, C., Colombo, N., … Pellicciotti, F. (2023). Local cooling and drying induced by Himalayan glaciers under global warming. Nature Geoscience. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01331-y chicago: Salerno, Franco, Nicolas Guyennon, Kun Yang, Thomas Shaw, Changgui Lin, Nicola Colombo, Emanuele Romano, et al. “Local Cooling and Drying Induced by Himalayan Glaciers under Global Warming.” Nature Geoscience. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01331-y. ieee: F. Salerno et al., “Local cooling and drying induced by Himalayan glaciers under global warming,” Nature Geoscience, vol. 16. Springer Nature, pp. 1120–1127, 2023. ista: Salerno F, Guyennon N, Yang K, Shaw T, Lin C, Colombo N, Romano E, Gruber S, Bolch T, Alessandri A, Cristofanelli P, Putero D, Diolaiuti G, Tartari G, Verza G, Thakuri S, Balsamo G, Miles ES, Pellicciotti F. 2023. Local cooling and drying induced by Himalayan glaciers under global warming. Nature Geoscience. 16, 1120–1127. mla: Salerno, Franco, et al. “Local Cooling and Drying Induced by Himalayan Glaciers under Global Warming.” Nature Geoscience, vol. 16, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 1120–27, doi:10.1038/s41561-023-01331-y. short: F. Salerno, N. Guyennon, K. Yang, T. Shaw, C. Lin, N. Colombo, E. Romano, S. Gruber, T. Bolch, A. Alessandri, P. Cristofanelli, D. Putero, G. Diolaiuti, G. Tartari, G. Verza, S. Thakuri, G. Balsamo, E.S. Miles, F. Pellicciotti, Nature Geoscience 16 (2023) 1120–1127. date_created: 2023-12-10T23:00:58Z date_published: 2023-12-04T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-09-09T13:36:16Z day: '04' ddc: - '550' department: - _id: FrPe doi: 10.1038/s41561-023-01331-y external_id: isi: - '001112839700003' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: d5ae0d17069eebc6f454c8608cf83e21 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2023-12-11T10:11:19Z date_updated: 2023-12-11T10:11:19Z file_id: '14671' file_name: 2023_NatureGeoscience_Salerno.pdf file_size: 6072603 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2023-12-11T10:11:19Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 16' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '12' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 1120-1127 publication: Nature Geoscience publication_identifier: eissn: - 1752-0908 issn: - 1752-0894 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' related_material: link: - description: News on ISTA website relation: press_release url: https://ista.ac.at/en/news/wind-of-climate-change/ scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Local cooling and drying induced by Himalayan glaciers under global warming tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345 volume: 16 year: '2023' ... --- _id: '14779' abstract: - lang: eng text: The presence of a developed boundary layer decouples a glacier's response from ambient conditions, suggesting that sensitivity to climate change is increased by glacier retreat. To test this hypothesis, we explore six years of distributed meteorological data on a small Swiss glacier in the period 2001–2022. Large glacier fragmentation has occurred since 2001 (−35% area change up to 2022) coinciding with notable frontal retreat, an observed switch from down‐glacier katabatic to up‐glacier valley winds and an increased sensitivity (ratio) of on‐glacier to off‐glacier temperature. As the glacier ceases to develop density‐driven katabatic winds, sensible heat fluxes on the glacier are increasingly determined by the conditions occurring outside the boundary layer of the glacier, sealing the glacier's demise as the climate continues to warm and experience an increased frequency of extreme summers. acknowledgement: This work was funded by the EU Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Grant 101026058. The authors acknowl-edge the dedicated collection of field data by many parties since 2001, including those acknowledged for the cited works on Arolla Glacier. The authors would like to thank Fabienne Meier, Alice Zaugg, Raphael Willi, Maria Grundmann, and Marta Corrà for assistance in the field for the summers of 2021 and 2022. Off-glacier data provided by Grand Dixence SA (Arolla) and MeteoSwiss are kindly acknowledged. Simone Fatichi is thanked for the provision and support in the use of the Tethys-Chloris model. We thank Editor Mathieu Morlighem and two anonymous reviewers whose comments have helped to improve the quality of the manuscript. article_number: e2023GL103043 article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Thomas E. full_name: Shaw, Thomas E. last_name: Shaw - first_name: Pascal full_name: Buri, Pascal last_name: Buri - first_name: Michael full_name: McCarthy, Michael last_name: McCarthy - first_name: Evan S. full_name: Miles, Evan S. last_name: Miles - first_name: Álvaro full_name: Ayala, Álvaro last_name: Ayala - first_name: Francesca full_name: Pellicciotti, Francesca id: b28f055a-81ea-11ed-b70c-a9fe7f7b0e70 last_name: Pellicciotti orcid: 0000-0002-5554-8087 citation: ama: Shaw TE, Buri P, McCarthy M, Miles ES, Ayala Á, Pellicciotti F. The decaying near‐surface boundary layer of a retreating alpine glacier. Geophysical Research Letters. 2023;50(11). doi:10.1029/2023gl103043 apa: Shaw, T. E., Buri, P., McCarthy, M., Miles, E. S., Ayala, Á., & Pellicciotti, F. (2023). The decaying near‐surface boundary layer of a retreating alpine glacier. Geophysical Research Letters. American Geophysical Union. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023gl103043 chicago: Shaw, Thomas E., Pascal Buri, Michael McCarthy, Evan S. Miles, Álvaro Ayala, and Francesca Pellicciotti. “The Decaying Near‐surface Boundary Layer of a Retreating Alpine Glacier.” Geophysical Research Letters. American Geophysical Union, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023gl103043. ieee: T. E. Shaw, P. Buri, M. McCarthy, E. S. Miles, Á. Ayala, and F. Pellicciotti, “The decaying near‐surface boundary layer of a retreating alpine glacier,” Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 50, no. 11. American Geophysical Union, 2023. ista: Shaw TE, Buri P, McCarthy M, Miles ES, Ayala Á, Pellicciotti F. 2023. The decaying near‐surface boundary layer of a retreating alpine glacier. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(11), e2023GL103043. mla: Shaw, Thomas E., et al. “The Decaying Near‐surface Boundary Layer of a Retreating Alpine Glacier.” Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 50, no. 11, e2023GL103043, American Geophysical Union, 2023, doi:10.1029/2023gl103043. short: T.E. Shaw, P. Buri, M. McCarthy, E.S. Miles, Á. Ayala, F. Pellicciotti, Geophysical Research Letters 50 (2023). date_created: 2024-01-10T09:28:34Z date_published: 2023-06-16T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-10-21T06:01:34Z day: '16' ddc: - '550' department: - _id: FrPe doi: 10.1029/2023gl103043 external_id: isi: - '000999436400001' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 391a3005c95340a0ae129ce4fbdf2bae content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2024-01-16T08:35:02Z date_updated: 2024-01-16T08:35:02Z file_id: '14805' file_name: 2023_GeophysicalResearchLetter_Shaw.pdf file_size: 2529327 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2024-01-16T08:35:02Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 50' isi: 1 issue: '11' keyword: - General Earth and Planetary Sciences - Geophysics language: - iso: eng month: '06' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version publication: Geophysical Research Letters publication_identifier: eissn: - 1944-8007 issn: - 0094-8276 publication_status: published publisher: American Geophysical Union quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: The decaying near‐surface boundary layer of a retreating alpine glacier tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 50 year: '2023' ... --- _id: '14919' abstract: - lang: eng text: "GLACIER METEOROLOGICAL DATA SWISS ALPS -2022\r\n" article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Thomas full_name: Shaw, Thomas id: 3caa3f91-1f03-11ee-96ce-e0e553054d6e last_name: Shaw orcid: 0000-0001-7640-6152 - first_name: Pascal full_name: Buri, Pascal id: 317987aa-9421-11ee-ac5a-b941b041abba last_name: Buri - first_name: Michael full_name: McCarthy, Michael last_name: McCarthy - first_name: Evan full_name: Miles, Evan last_name: Miles - first_name: Francesca full_name: Pellicciotti, Francesca id: b28f055a-81ea-11ed-b70c-a9fe7f7b0e70 last_name: Pellicciotti orcid: 0000-0002-5554-8087 citation: ama: Shaw T, Buri P, McCarthy M, Miles E, Pellicciotti F. Air temperature and near-surface meteorology datasets on three Swiss glaciers - Extreme 2022 Summer. 2023. doi:10.5281/ZENODO.8277285 apa: Shaw, T., Buri, P., McCarthy, M., Miles, E., & Pellicciotti, F. (2023). Air temperature and near-surface meteorology datasets on three Swiss glaciers - Extreme 2022 Summer. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.8277285 chicago: Shaw, Thomas, Pascal Buri, Michael McCarthy, Evan Miles, and Francesca Pellicciotti. “Air Temperature and Near-Surface Meteorology Datasets on Three Swiss Glaciers - Extreme 2022 Summer.” Zenodo, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.8277285. ieee: T. Shaw, P. Buri, M. McCarthy, E. Miles, and F. Pellicciotti, “Air temperature and near-surface meteorology datasets on three Swiss glaciers - Extreme 2022 Summer.” Zenodo, 2023. ista: Shaw T, Buri P, McCarthy M, Miles E, Pellicciotti F. 2023. Air temperature and near-surface meteorology datasets on three Swiss glaciers - Extreme 2022 Summer, Zenodo, 10.5281/ZENODO.8277285. mla: Shaw, Thomas, et al. Air Temperature and Near-Surface Meteorology Datasets on Three Swiss Glaciers - Extreme 2022 Summer. Zenodo, 2023, doi:10.5281/ZENODO.8277285. short: T. Shaw, P. Buri, M. McCarthy, E. Miles, F. Pellicciotti, (2023). corr_author: '1' date_created: 2024-01-31T12:08:26Z date_published: 2023-08-23T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-09-04T11:58:38Z day: '23' ddc: - '550' department: - _id: FrPe doi: 10.5281/ZENODO.8277285 main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.8277285 month: '08' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version publisher: Zenodo related_material: record: - id: '14885' relation: used_in_publication status: public status: public title: Air temperature and near-surface meteorology datasets on three Swiss glaciers - Extreme 2022 Summer type: research_data_reference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2023' ... --- _id: '12573' abstract: - lang: eng text: Supraglacial debris strongly modulates glacier melt rates and can be decisive for ice dynamics and mountain hydrology. It is ubiquitous in High-Mountain Asia, yet because its thickness and supply rate from local topography are poorly known, our ability to forecast regional glacier change and streamflow is limited. Here we combined remote sensing and numerical modelling to resolve supraglacial debris thickness by altitude for 4689 glaciers in High-Mountain Asia, and debris-supply rate to 4141 of those glaciers. Our results reveal extensively thin supraglacial debris and high spatial variability in both debris thickness and supply rate. Debris-supply rate increases with the temperature and slope of debris-supply slopes regionally, and debris thickness increases as ice flow decreases locally. Our centennial-scale estimates of debris-supply rate are typically an order of magnitude or more lower than millennial-scale estimates of headwall-erosion rate from Beryllium-10 cosmogenic nuclides, potentially reflecting episodic debris supply to the region’s glaciers. article_number: '269' article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Michael full_name: McCarthy, Michael last_name: McCarthy - first_name: Evan full_name: Miles, Evan last_name: Miles - first_name: Marin full_name: Kneib, Marin last_name: Kneib - first_name: Pascal full_name: Buri, Pascal last_name: Buri - first_name: Stefan full_name: Fugger, Stefan last_name: Fugger - first_name: Francesca full_name: Pellicciotti, Francesca id: b28f055a-81ea-11ed-b70c-a9fe7f7b0e70 last_name: Pellicciotti citation: ama: McCarthy M, Miles E, Kneib M, Buri P, Fugger S, Pellicciotti F. Supraglacial debris thickness and supply rate in High-Mountain Asia. Communications Earth & Environment. 2022;3. doi:10.1038/s43247-022-00588-2 apa: McCarthy, M., Miles, E., Kneib, M., Buri, P., Fugger, S., & Pellicciotti, F. (2022). Supraglacial debris thickness and supply rate in High-Mountain Asia. Communications Earth & Environment. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00588-2 chicago: McCarthy, Michael, Evan Miles, Marin Kneib, Pascal Buri, Stefan Fugger, and Francesca Pellicciotti. “Supraglacial Debris Thickness and Supply Rate in High-Mountain Asia.” Communications Earth & Environment. Springer Nature, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00588-2. ieee: M. McCarthy, E. Miles, M. Kneib, P. Buri, S. Fugger, and F. Pellicciotti, “Supraglacial debris thickness and supply rate in High-Mountain Asia,” Communications Earth & Environment, vol. 3. Springer Nature, 2022. ista: McCarthy M, Miles E, Kneib M, Buri P, Fugger S, Pellicciotti F. 2022. Supraglacial debris thickness and supply rate in High-Mountain Asia. Communications Earth & Environment. 3, 269. mla: McCarthy, Michael, et al. “Supraglacial Debris Thickness and Supply Rate in High-Mountain Asia.” Communications Earth & Environment, vol. 3, 269, Springer Nature, 2022, doi:10.1038/s43247-022-00588-2. short: M. McCarthy, E. Miles, M. Kneib, P. Buri, S. Fugger, F. Pellicciotti, Communications Earth & Environment 3 (2022). date_created: 2023-02-20T08:09:27Z date_published: 2022-11-05T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-02-28T14:02:22Z day: '05' doi: 10.1038/s43247-022-00588-2 extern: '1' intvolume: ' 3' keyword: - General Earth and Planetary Sciences - General Environmental Science language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00588-2 month: '11' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version publication: Communications Earth & Environment publication_identifier: issn: - 2662-4435 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Supraglacial debris thickness and supply rate in High-Mountain Asia type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 3 year: '2022' ...