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#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/ Image
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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Sep 26, 2020
1/ Let's use glaciers to learn something about the relationship between average precipitation and temperature today! ❄️🏔️🌡️

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doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-…
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What makes them so special to us? They are coming from research groups 👏 outside of the OGGM core team 👏 1/3
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edu.oggm.org is an #interactive platform to #learn and #teach about #glaciers. We started OGGM-Edu as the "educational branch" of OGGM, but nowadays we see the project as largely independent and useful on its own. Why do we hope that it can be useful to you? 1/n
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Let's start a new hashtag: #FridayCryospherePaper! From now on and 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. Why? 1/6
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