Articles | Volume 15, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-1187-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-1187-2021
Research article
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03 Mar 2021
Research article |  | 03 Mar 2021

Ice content and interannual water storage changes of an active rock glacier in the dry Andes of Argentina

Christian Halla, Jan Henrik Blöthe, Carla Tapia Baldis, Dario Trombotto Liaudat, Christin Hilbich, Christian Hauck, and Lothar Schrott

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In the semi-arid to arid Andes of Argentina, rock glaciers contain invisible and unknown amounts of ground ice that could become more important in future for the water availability during the dry season. The study shows that the investigated rock glacier represents an important long-term ice reservoir in the dry mountain catchment and that interannual changes of ground ice can store and release significant amounts of annual precipitation.
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