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Articles | Volume 19, issue 1
Articles | Volume 19, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-423-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-423-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 19, issue 1
Research article
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29 Jan 2025
Research article |  | 29 Jan 2025

Separating snow and ice melt using water stable isotopes and glacio-hydrological modelling: towards improving the application of isotope analyses in highly glacierized catchments

Tom Müller, Mauro Fischer, Stuart N. Lane, and Bettina Schaefli

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Based on extensive field observations in a highly glacierized catchment in the Swiss Alps, we develop a combined isotopic and glacio-hydrological model. We show that water stable isotopes may help to better constrain model parameters, especially those linked to water transfer. However, we highlight that separating snow and ice melt for temperate glaciers based on isotope mixing models alone is not advised and should only be considered if their isotopic signatures have clearly different values.
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