ENSO influence on surface energy and mass balance at Shallap Glacier, Cordillera Blanca, Peru

Maussion, F.; Gurgiser, W.; Großhauser, M.; Kaser, G.; Marzeion, B.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-1663-2015

Articles | Volume 9, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-1663-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-1663-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 4

Research article

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21 Aug 2015

Research article |

| 21 Aug 2015

ENSO influence on surface energy and mass balance at Shallap Glacier, Cordillera Blanca, Peru

F. Maussion, W. Gurgiser, M. Großhauser, G. Kaser, and B. Marzeion

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RC C1039: 'Rview Maussion et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 12 Jun 2015
RC C1065: 'Review of Maussion et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 18 Jun 2015
AC C1277: 'Response to reviewers #1 and #2', Fabien Maussion, 24 Jul 2015

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (31 Jul 2015) by Tobias Bolch

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Short summary

Using a newly developed open-source tool, we downscale the glacier surface energy and mass balance fluxes at Shallap Glacier. This allows an unprecedented quantification of the ENSO influence on a tropical glacier at climatological time scales (1980-2013). We find a stronger and steadier anti-correlation between Pacific sea-surface temperature (SST) and glacier mass balance than previously reported and provide keys to understand its mechanism.