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Articles | Volume 20, issue 7
Articles | Volume 20, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3817-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3817-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 20, issue 7
Brief communication
 | 
09 Jul 2026
Brief communication |  | 09 Jul 2026

Brief communication: Inferring Glacier Equilibrium Line Altitudes in the Europe Alps with FROST

Oskar Herrmann, Veena Prasad, Anna Zöller, Alexander R. Groos, Samuel Cook, Christian Sommer, and Johannes J. Fürst

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3817-2026-supplement

Data sets

Swiss Glacier Mass Balance GLAMOS https://doi.org/10.18750/massbalance.2020.r2021

Fluctuations of Glaciers (FoG) Database WGMS https://doi.org/10.5904/wgms-fog-2026-02-10

Transient snow line altitudes of glaciers in the European Alps from multi-mission remote sensing data (2000-2025) C. Sommer et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18223929

Accelerated global glacier mass loss in the early twenty-first century - Dataset R. Hugonnet et al. https://doi.org/10.6096/13

Randolph Glacier Inventory – A Dataset of Global Glacier Outlines RGI Consortium https://doi.org/10.5067/F6JMOVY5NAVZ

Model code and software

FAU-glacier-systems/FROST: DOI Release Oskar Herrmann et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21128855

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Short summary
Glaciers in the European Alps are shrinking rapidly because of climate change. We developed a new open-source method that combines satellite observations with computer models to estimate where glaciers gain and lose ice. Applied to hundreds of glaciers, the results agree well with field measurements. This approach improves our understanding of glacier change and helps make more reliable predictions of their future.
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