#FridayCryospherePaper! Until the submission deadline for the upcoming #EGU20 (Jan 15th), each Friday we will highlight a new paper which was important for the field of large scale glaciology, and therefore also for our new EGU session: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2020/sessio… 1/
Today: "Contribution potential of glaciers to water availability in different climate regimes" by Kaser et al. (2010): pnas.org/content/107/47… Published only a few months after the "Himalaya Gate", this paper attempts to bring some data driven facts in an over-heated debate. 2/
The authors discuss the relative importance of glacier seasonal melt to several river basins. They find that the seasonally delayed glacier contribution is largest where rivers enter seasonally arid regions and negligible in the lowlands of basins governed by monsoon 3/ 
Importantly, this paper reminds the general public that glaciers act as a "buffer", not as a "source" of water. This study has been complemented by a more recent publication by @matthias_huss and Hock (2018), but this will be the topic of a future #FridayCryospherePaper! 4/
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