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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-3661-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-3661-2023
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Brief communication: The Glacier Loss Day as an indicator of a record-breaking negative glacier mass balance in 2022
Annelies Voordendag
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences (ACINN), Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Rainer Prinz
Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences (ACINN), Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Lilian Schuster
Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences (ACINN), Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Georg Kaser
Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences (ACINN), Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- The last years of Infiernos Glacier and its transition to a new paraglacial stage J. Revuelto et al.
- Exceptional thinning through the entire altitudinal range of Mont-Blanc glaciers during the 2021/22 mass balance year E. Berthier et al.
- Pyrenean glaciers are disappearing fast: state of the glaciers after the extreme mass losses in 2022 and 2023 E. Izagirre et al.
- Loss of accumulation zone exposes dark ice and drives increased ablation at Weißseespitze, Austria L. Hartl et al.
- Operational and experimental snow observation systems in the upper Rofental: data from 2017 to 2023 M. Warscher et al.
- Record-breaking extremes in a warming climate E. Fischer et al.
- Detecting the impact of climate change on alpine mass movements in observational records from the European Alps M. Jacquemart et al.
- A minimal machine-learning glacier mass balance model M. van der Meer et al.
- Swiss glacier mass loss during the 2022 drought: persistent streamflow contributions amid declining melt water volumes M. van Tiel et al.
- Lidar-based snow monitoring from aerial lifts: Gondola deployment in the Austrian Alps B. Dikic et al.
- Linking heavy rainfall to suspended sediment fluxes in a deglaciating Alpine catchment A. Skålevåg et al.
- Permanent terrestrial laser scanning for near-continuous environmental observations: Systems, methods, challenges and applications R. Lindenbergh et al.
- Record-breaking glacier mass loss in Central Asia in 2025 L. Tricht et al.
- The role of mid-latitude zonal wind anomalies in extreme glacier mass loss on central Tibetan Plateau F. Zhu et al.
- Constraining sub-seasonal glacier mass balance in the Swiss Alps using Sentinel-2-derived snow-cover observations A. Cremona et al.
- Évolution du manteau neigeux pendant la sécheresse de 2022 en France S. Gascoin et al.
- Glacier mass balance and its response to 2022 heatwaves for Kangxiwa Glacier in the eastern Pamir: insights from time-lapse photography Y. Xie et al.
- Spatio‐temporal wet snow dynamics from model simulations and remote sensing: A case study from the Rofental, Austria E. Rottler et al.
- A novel framework to investigate wind-driven snow redistribution over an Alpine glacier: combination of high-resolution terrestrial laser scans and large-eddy simulations A. Voordendag et al.
- Investigating the influence of changing ice surfaces on gravity wave formation impacting glacier boundary layer flow with large-eddy simulations B. Goger et al.
- The glaciers of the Dolomites: the last 40 years of melting A. Securo et al.
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Editorial statement
This study is worthy of a highlight. The new indicator (Glacier Loss Day) is accessible to the non-expert, and may capture public interest (the authors compare Glacier Loss Day to Earth Overshoot Day, which is a fair comparison). Given the dramatic summer mass loss of glaciers in the Alps in recent years, this work has high potential to generate media interest.
This study is worthy of a highlight. The new indicator (Glacier Loss Day) is accessible to the...
Short summary
The Glacier Loss Day (GLD) is the day on which all mass gained from the accumulation period is lost, and the glacier loses mass irrecoverably for the rest of the mass balance year. In 2022, the GLD was already reached on 23 June at Hintereisferner (Austria), and this led to a record-breaking mass loss. We introduce the GLD as a gross yet expressive indicator of the glacier’s imbalance with a persistently warming climate.
The Glacier Loss Day (GLD) is the day on which all mass gained from the accumulation period is...