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Climate trends and glacier retreat in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru, revisited

Schauwecker, S. ; Rohrer, M. ; Acuña, D. ; Cochachin, A. ; Dávila, L. ; Frey, H. ; Giráldez, C. ; Gómez, J. ; Huggel, C. ; Jacques-Coper, M. ; Loarte, E. ; Salzmann, Nadine ; Vuille, M.

In: Global and Planetary Change, 2014, vol. 119, p. 85–97

The total glacial area of the Cordillera Blanca, Peru, has shrunk by more than 30% in the period of 1930 to the present with a marked glacier retreat also in the recent decades. The aim of this paper is to assess local air temperature and precipitation changes in the Cordillera Blanca and to discuss how these variables could have affected the observed glacier retreat between the 1980s and...

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Robust changes and sources of uncertainty in the projected hydrological regimes of Swiss catchments

Addor, Nans ; Rössler, Ole ; Köplin, Nina ; Huss, Matthias ; Weingartner, Rolf ; Seibert, Jan

In: Water Resources Research, 2014, p. -

Projections of discharge are key for future water resources management. These projections are subject to uncertainties, which are difficult to handle in the decision process on adaptation strategies. Uncertainties arise from different sources such as the emission scenarios, the climate models and their post-processing, the hydrological models and natural variability. Here we present a detailed...

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High uncertainty in 21st century runoff projections from glacierized basins

Huss, Matthias ; Zemp, Michael ; Joerg, Philip C. ; Salzmann, Nadine

In: Journal of Hydrology, 2014, vol. 510, p. 35–48

Glacier response to a changing climate and its impact on runoff is understood in general terms, but model-based projections are affected by considerable uncertainties. They originate from the driving climate model, input data quality, and simplifications in the glacio-hydrological model and hamper the reliability of the simulations. Here, an integrative assessment of the uncertainty in 21st...