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  bibo_abstract:
  - The current Chilean megadrought has led to acute water shortages in central Chile
    since 2010. Glaciers have provided vital fresh water to the region's rivers, but
    the quantity, timing and sustainability of that provision remain unclear. Here
    we combine in-situ, remote sensing and climate reanalysis data to show that from
    2010 to 2018 during the megadrought, unsustainable imbalance ablation of glaciers
    (ablation not balanced by new snowfall) strongly buffered the late-summer discharge
    of the Maipo River, a primary source of water to Santiago. If there had been no
    glaciers, water availability would have been reduced from December through May,
    with a 31 ± 19% decrease during March. Our results indicate that while the annual
    contributions of imbalance ablation to river discharge during the megadrought
    have been small compared to those from precipitation and sustainable balance ablation,
    they have nevertheless been a substantial input to a hydrological system that
    was already experiencing high water stress. The water-equivalent volume of imbalance
    ablation generated in the Maipo Basin between 2010 and 2018 was 740 × 106 m3 (19
    ± 12 mm yr−1), approximately 3.4 times the capacity of the basin's El Yeso Reservoir.
    This is equivalent to 14% of Santiago's potable water use in that time, while
    total glacier ablation was equivalent to 59%. We show that glacier retreat will
    exacerbate river discharge deficits and further jeopardize water availability
    in central Chile if precipitation deficits endure, and conjecture that these effects
    will be amplified by climatic warming.@eng
  bibo_authorlist:
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Michael
      foaf_name: McCarthy, Michael
      foaf_surname: McCarthy
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Fabienne
      foaf_name: Meier, Fabienne
      foaf_surname: Meier
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Simone
      foaf_name: Fatichi, Simone
      foaf_surname: Fatichi
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Benjamin D.
      foaf_name: Stocker, Benjamin D.
      foaf_surname: Stocker
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Thomas E.
      foaf_name: Shaw, Thomas E.
      foaf_surname: Shaw
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Evan
      foaf_name: Miles, Evan
      foaf_surname: Miles
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Inés
      foaf_name: Dussaillant, Inés
      foaf_surname: Dussaillant
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Francesca
      foaf_name: Pellicciotti, Francesca
      foaf_surname: Pellicciotti
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=b28f055a-81ea-11ed-b70c-a9fe7f7b0e70
  bibo_doi: 10.1029/2022ef002852
  bibo_issue: '10'
  bibo_volume: 10
  dct_date: 2022^xs_gYear
  dct_isPartOf:
  - http://id.crossref.org/issn/2328-4277
  dct_language: eng
  dct_publisher: American Geophysical Union@
  dct_subject:
  - Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
  - General Environmental Science
  dct_title: Glacier contributions to river discharge during the current Chilean megadrought@
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