{"PlanS_conform":"1","user_id":"317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345","date_created":"2025-09-14T22:01:31Z","author":[{"first_name":"Achille","id":"f2426a39-920b-11f0-ac40-cbeda2086b9c","full_name":"Jouberton, Achille","last_name":"Jouberton"},{"id":"3caa3f91-1f03-11ee-96ce-e0e553054d6e","first_name":"Thomas","orcid":"0000-0001-7640-6152","last_name":"Shaw","full_name":"Shaw, Thomas"},{"last_name":"Miles","full_name":"Miles, Evan","first_name":"Evan"},{"last_name":"Kneib","full_name":"Kneib, Marin","first_name":"Marin"},{"last_name":"Fugger","full_name":"Fugger, Stefan","id":"86698d64-c4c6-11ee-af02-cdf1e6a7d31f","first_name":"Stefan"},{"id":"317987aa-9421-11ee-ac5a-b941b041abba","first_name":"Pascal","last_name":"Buri","full_name":"Buri, Pascal"},{"first_name":"Michael","id":"22a2674a-61ce-11ee-94b5-d18813baf16f","full_name":"Mccarthy, Michael","last_name":"Mccarthy"},{"full_name":"Kayumov, Abdulhamid","last_name":"Kayumov","first_name":"Abdulhamid"},{"first_name":"Hofiz","last_name":"Navruzshoev","full_name":"Navruzshoev, Hofiz"},{"first_name":"Ardamehr","last_name":"Halimov","full_name":"Halimov, Ardamehr"},{"first_name":"Khusrav","full_name":"Kabutov, Khusrav","last_name":"Kabutov"},{"first_name":"Farrukh","full_name":"Homidov, Farrukh","last_name":"Homidov"},{"first_name":"Francesca","id":"b28f055a-81ea-11ed-b70c-a9fe7f7b0e70","full_name":"Pellicciotti, Francesca","last_name":"Pellicciotti","orcid":"0000-0002-5554-8087"}],"publisher":"Springer Nature","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."}],"OA_type":"gold","external_id":{"isi":["001563848700001"],"pmid":["40910036"]},"corr_author":"1","has_accepted_license":"1","article_number":"691","article_processing_charge":"Yes","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"file":[{"success":1,"date_created":"2025-09-15T08:16:09Z","file_size":3840094,"access_level":"open_access","creator":"dernst","file_name":"2025_CommEarthEnvir_Jouberton.pdf","file_id":"20356","content_type":"application/pdf","checksum":"62f9740c6cf564879006f4d97b58b608","date_updated":"2025-09-15T08:16:09Z","relation":"main_file"}],"type":"journal_article","oa_version":"Published Version","month":"09","tmp":{"short":"CC BY (4.0)","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)"},"quality_controlled":"1","doi":"10.1038/s43247-025-02611-8","DOAJ_listed":"1","oa":1,"date_updated":"2025-09-30T14:41:28Z","OA_place":"publisher","title":"Snowfall decrease in recent years undermines glacier health and meltwater resources in the Northwestern Pamirs","scopus_import":"1","isi":1,"day":"02","publication_status":"published","volume":6,"publication":"Communications Earth and Environment","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.","citation":{"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. <i>Communications Earth and Environment</i>. Springer Nature. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02611-8\">https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02611-8</a>","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).","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.” <i>Communications Earth and Environment</i>. Springer Nature, 2025. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02611-8\">https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02611-8</a>.","mla":"Jouberton, Achille, et al. “Snowfall Decrease in Recent Years Undermines Glacier Health and Meltwater Resources in the Northwestern Pamirs.” <i>Communications Earth and Environment</i>, vol. 6, 691, Springer Nature, 2025, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02611-8\">10.1038/s43247-025-02611-8</a>.","ieee":"A. Jouberton <i>et al.</i>, “Snowfall decrease in recent years undermines glacier health and meltwater resources in the Northwestern Pamirs,” <i>Communications Earth and Environment</i>, vol. 6. Springer Nature, 2025.","ama":"Jouberton A, Shaw T, Miles E, et al. Snowfall decrease in recent years undermines glacier health and meltwater resources in the Northwestern Pamirs. <i>Communications Earth and Environment</i>. 2025;6. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02611-8\">10.1038/s43247-025-02611-8</a>","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. 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