Articles | Volume 12, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-759-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-759-2018
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01 Mar 2018
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The European mountain cryosphere: a review of its current state, trends, and future challenges

Martin Beniston, Daniel Farinotti, Markus Stoffel, Liss M. Andreassen, Erika Coppola, Nicolas Eckert, Adriano Fantini, Florie Giacona, Christian Hauck, Matthias Huss, Hendrik Huwald, Michael Lehning, Juan-Ignacio López-Moreno, Jan Magnusson, Christoph Marty, Enrique Morán-Tejéda, Samuel Morin, Mohamed Naaim, Antonello Provenzale, Antoine Rabatel, Delphine Six, Johann Stötter, Ulrich Strasser, Silvia Terzago, and Christian Vincent

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AR by Anna Wenzel on behalf of the Authors (19 Jun 2017)  Author's response
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (20 Jun 2017) by Ross Brown
RR by Wilfried Haeberli (03 Jul 2017)
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (13 Jul 2017)
RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (08 Aug 2017)
ED: Reconsider after major revisions (09 Aug 2017) by Ross Brown
AR by Anna Mirena Feist-Polner on behalf of the Authors (01 Nov 2017)  Author's response
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (02 Nov 2017) by Ross Brown
RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (05 Jan 2018)
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (10 Jan 2018) by Ross Brown
AR by Anna Wenzel on behalf of the Authors (17 Jan 2018)  Author's response
ED: Publish as is (18 Jan 2018) by Ross Brown
Short summary
This paper makes a rather exhaustive overview of current knowledge of past, current, and future aspects of cryospheric issues in continental Europe and makes a number of reflections of areas of uncertainty requiring more attention in both scientific and policy terms. The review paper is completed by a bibliography containing 350 recent references that will certainly be of value to scholars engaged in the fields of glacier, snow, and permafrost research.