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Articles | Volume 18, issue 2
Articles | Volume 18, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-889-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-889-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 18, issue 2
Brief communication
 | 
27 Feb 2024
Brief communication |  | 27 Feb 2024

Brief communication: Recent estimates of glacier mass loss for western North America from laser altimetry

Brian Menounos, Alex Gardner, Caitlyn Florentine, and Andrew Fountain

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Glaciers in western North American outside of Alaska are often overlooked in global studies because their potential to contribute to changes in sea level is small. Nonetheless, these glaciers represent important sources of freshwater, especially during times of drought. We show that these glaciers lost mass at a rate of about 12 Gt yr-1 for about the period 2013–2021;  the rate of mass loss over the period 2018–2022 was similar. 
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