---
_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
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- first_name: Thomas
full_name: Shaw, Thomas
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last_name: Shaw
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- first_name: Pascal
full_name: Buri, Pascal
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last_name: Buri
- first_name: Michael
full_name: Mccarthy, Michael
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last_name: Mccarthy
- first_name: Evan S.
full_name: Miles, Evan S.
last_name: Miles
- first_name: Francesca
full_name: Pellicciotti, Francesca
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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'
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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'
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- first_name: Thomas
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last_name: Shaw
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- 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
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last_name: Buri
- first_name: Michael
full_name: McCarthy, Michael
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last_name: McCarthy
- first_name: Catriona Louise
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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'
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date_published: 2024-04-09T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-09-04T11:57:57Z
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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].'
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last_name: Fatichi
- first_name: Thomas
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last_name: Shaw
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- first_name: Catriona Louise
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id: 001b0422-8d15-11ed-bc51-cab6c037a228
last_name: Fyffe
- first_name: Evan S.
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last_name: Miles
- first_name: Michael
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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
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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.
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abstract:
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text: The mountain cryosphere and groundwater play pivotal roles in shaping the
hydrological cycle, yet their connectivity remains incompletely understood. Current
knowledge on meltwater recharge and consequent groundwater discharge processes
is better developed for snow–groundwater connectivity than for glacier–groundwater
connectivity. Estimates of meltwater recharge vary considerably, which is probably
a function of not only inherent catchment characteristics but also of the different
spatio-temporal scales involved and the uncertainties in the methods used. This
hinders a comprehensive understanding of the mountain water cycle. As glaciers
retreat, permafrost thaws and snowpack diminishes, the relative importance of
mountain groundwater is expected to increase. However, shifting and declining
recharge from the cryosphere may decrease absolute groundwater amounts and fluxes
with as-yet unknown effects on catchment-scale hydrological processes. We therefore
stress the need to better quantify mountain cryosphere–groundwater connectivity
to predict climate change impacts on mountain water supply and to support sustainable
water resource management of downstream socio-ecological systems.
acknowledgement: 'We acknowledge the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) for sponsoring
the workshop ‘Cryosphere-groundwater Interactions: A Missing Link in Mountain Water
Research’ via their funding from the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) under project
no. FNW0004 004-2019-00. M.v.T. was supported by a Walter Benjamin fellowship from
the German Research Foundation (DFG) under project no. 510684314. C.A.-W. was supported
by the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships programme, administered by the government
of Canada. G.C. acknowledges the support of the DFG research unit (FOR2793/2) investigating
the ‘Sensitivity of High Alpine Geosystems to Climate Change since 1850’ (SEHAG)
under grant CH981/3-2. F.D. acknowledges funding from the Dirección de Fomento de
la Investigación at PUCP. I.d.G. acknowledges funding from the European Research
Council (ERC) under grant agreement GROW-101041110. V.Y. was supported by Nazarbayev
University under CRP research grant no. 021220CRP2122. We thank D. Masovic of VAW,
ETH Zurich, for drawing Fig. 1.'
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- first_name: Caroline
full_name: Aubry-Wake, Caroline
last_name: Aubry-Wake
- first_name: Lauren
full_name: Somers, Lauren
last_name: Somers
- first_name: Christoff
full_name: Andermann, Christoff
last_name: Andermann
- first_name: Francesco
full_name: Avanzi, Francesco
last_name: Avanzi
- first_name: Michel
full_name: Baraer, Michel
last_name: Baraer
- first_name: Gabriele
full_name: Chiogna, Gabriele
last_name: Chiogna
- first_name: Clémence
full_name: Daigre, Clémence
last_name: Daigre
- first_name: Soumik
full_name: Das, Soumik
last_name: Das
- first_name: Fabian
full_name: Drenkhan, Fabian
last_name: Drenkhan
- first_name: Daniel
full_name: Farinotti, Daniel
last_name: Farinotti
- first_name: Catriona Louise
full_name: Fyffe, Catriona Louise
id: 001b0422-8d15-11ed-bc51-cab6c037a228
last_name: Fyffe
- first_name: Inge
full_name: de Graaf, Inge
last_name: de Graaf
- first_name: Sarah
full_name: Hanus, Sarah
last_name: Hanus
- first_name: Walter
full_name: Immerzeel, Walter
last_name: Immerzeel
- first_name: Franziska
full_name: Koch, Franziska
last_name: Koch
- first_name: Jeffrey M.
full_name: McKenzie, Jeffrey M.
last_name: McKenzie
- first_name: Tom
full_name: Müller, Tom
last_name: Müller
- first_name: Andrea L.
full_name: Popp, Andrea L.
last_name: Popp
- first_name: Zarina
full_name: Saidaliyeva, Zarina
last_name: Saidaliyeva
- first_name: Bettina
full_name: Schaefli, Bettina
last_name: Schaefli
- first_name: Oliver S.
full_name: Schilling, Oliver S.
last_name: Schilling
- first_name: Kapiolani
full_name: Teagai, Kapiolani
last_name: Teagai
- first_name: James M.
full_name: Thornton, James M.
last_name: Thornton
- first_name: Vadim
full_name: Yapiyev, Vadim
last_name: Yapiyev
citation:
ama: van Tiel M, Aubry-Wake C, Somers L, et al. Cryosphere–groundwater connectivity
is a missing link in the mountain water cycle. Nature Water. 2024;2:624-637.
doi:10.1038/s44221-024-00277-8
apa: van Tiel, M., Aubry-Wake, C., Somers, L., Andermann, C., Avanzi, F., Baraer,
M., … Yapiyev, V. (2024). Cryosphere–groundwater connectivity is a missing link
in the mountain water cycle. Nature Water. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-024-00277-8
chicago: Tiel, Marit van, Caroline Aubry-Wake, Lauren Somers, Christoff Andermann,
Francesco Avanzi, Michel Baraer, Gabriele Chiogna, et al. “Cryosphere–Groundwater
Connectivity Is a Missing Link in the Mountain Water Cycle.” Nature Water.
Springer Nature, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-024-00277-8.
ieee: M. van Tiel et al., “Cryosphere–groundwater connectivity is a missing
link in the mountain water cycle,” Nature Water, vol. 2. Springer Nature,
pp. 624–637, 2024.
ista: van Tiel M, Aubry-Wake C, Somers L, Andermann C, Avanzi F, Baraer M, Chiogna
G, Daigre C, Das S, Drenkhan F, Farinotti D, Fyffe CL, de Graaf I, Hanus S, Immerzeel
W, Koch F, McKenzie JM, Müller T, Popp AL, Saidaliyeva Z, Schaefli B, Schilling
OS, Teagai K, Thornton JM, Yapiyev V. 2024. Cryosphere–groundwater connectivity
is a missing link in the mountain water cycle. Nature Water. 2, 624–637.
mla: van Tiel, Marit, et al. “Cryosphere–Groundwater Connectivity Is a Missing Link
in the Mountain Water Cycle.” Nature Water, vol. 2, Springer Nature, 2024,
pp. 624–37, doi:10.1038/s44221-024-00277-8.
short: M. van Tiel, C. Aubry-Wake, L. Somers, C. Andermann, F. Avanzi, M. Baraer,
G. Chiogna, C. Daigre, S. Das, F. Drenkhan, D. Farinotti, C.L. Fyffe, I. de Graaf,
S. Hanus, W. Immerzeel, F. Koch, J.M. McKenzie, T. Müller, A.L. Popp, Z. Saidaliyeva,
B. Schaefli, O.S. Schilling, K. Teagai, J.M. Thornton, V. Yapiyev, Nature Water
2 (2024) 624–637.
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date_updated: 2025-12-02T13:42:28Z
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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.
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full_name: Buri, Pascal
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- first_name: Simone
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- first_name: Thomas
full_name: Shaw, Thomas
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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
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last_name: Mccarthy
- first_name: Catriona Louise
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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
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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).
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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
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- first_name: Catriona Louise
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last_name: Fyffe
- first_name: Stefan
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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
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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).
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abstract:
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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.
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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
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ama: Muñoz Hermosilla JM. A 3D glacier dynamics-line plume model to estimate the
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chicago: Muñoz Hermosilla, José M. “A 3D Glacier Dynamics-Line Plume Model to Estimate
the Frontal Ablation of Hansbreen.” Zenodo, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.8005257.
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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.
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near‐surface boundary layer of a retreating alpine glacier. Geophysical Research
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apa: Shaw, T. E., Buri, P., McCarthy, M., Miles, E. S., Ayala, Á., & Pellicciotti,
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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
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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
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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).
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Pellicciotti. “Air Temperature and Near-Surface Meteorology Datasets on Three
Swiss Glaciers - Extreme 2022 Summer.” Zenodo, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.8277285.
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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).
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