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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-2383-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-2383-2021
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21 May 2021
Research article |  | 21 May 2021

Record summer rains in 2019 led to massive loss of surface and cave ice in SE Europe

Aurel Perşoiu, Nenad Buzjak, Alexandru Onaca, Christos Pennos, Yorgos Sotiriadis, Monica Ionita, Stavros Zachariadis, Michael Styllas, Jure Kosutnik, Alexandru Hegyi, and Valerija Butorac

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Extreme precipitation events in summer 2019 led to catastrophic loss of cave and surface ice in SE Europe at levels unprecedented during the last century. The projected continuous warming and increase in precipitation extremes could pose an additional threat to glaciers in southern Europe, resulting in a potentially ice-free SE Europe by the middle of the next decade (2035 CE).