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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 ofthat provision remain unclear. Here
    we combine in-situ, remote sensing and climate reanalysis data to showthat from
    2010 to 2018 during the megadrought, unsustainable imbalance ablation of glaciers
    (ablation notbalanced by new snowfall) strongly buffered the late-summer discharge
    of the Maipo River, a primary sourceof water to Santiago. If there had been no
    glaciers, water availability would have been reduced from Decemberthrough May,
    with a 31 ± 19% decrease during March. Our results indicate that while the annual
    contributionsof imbalance ablation to river discharge during the megadrought have
    been small compared to those fromprecipitation and sustainable balance ablation,
    they have nevertheless been a substantial input to a hydrologicalsystem that was
    already experiencing high water stress. The water-equivalent volume of imbalance
    ablationgenerated in the Maipo Basin between 2010 and 2018 was 740 × 10 6 m 3
    (19 ± 12 mm yr −1), approximately 3.4times the capacity of the basin's El Yeso
    Reservoir. This is equivalent to 14% of Santiago's potable water use inthat time,
    while total glacier ablation was equivalent to 59%. We show that glacier retreat
    will exacerbate riverdischarge deficits and further jeopardize water availability
    in central Chile if precipitation deficits endure, andconjecture 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_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=cf8e546b-a9b0-11f0-a43b-aa89ed1b56d6
  - 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
  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_title: Glacier contributions to river discharge during the current chilean megadrought@
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