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Brief communication: Do 1.0 °C, 1.5 °C or 2.0 °C matter for the future evolution of Alpine glaciers?

Loris Compagno1,2, Sarah Eggs1,2, Matthias Huss1,2,3, Harry Zekollari5,4,1,2, and Daniel Farinotti1,2 Loris Compagno et al.
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  • 1Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW), ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland
  • 3Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
  • 4Laboratoire de Glaciologie, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
  • 5Department of Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Received: 26 Jan 2021 – Accepted for review: 09 Feb 2021 – Discussion started: 10 Feb 2021

Abstract. With the Paris Agreement, the urgency of limiting ongoing anthropogenic climate change has been recognized. More recent discussions have focused on the difference of limiting the increase in global average temperatures below 1.0, 1.5, or 2.0 °C compared to pre-industrial levels. Here, we assess the impacts that such different scenarios would have on both the future evolution of glaciers in the European Alps and the water resources they provide. Our results show that the different temperature targets 5 have important implications for the changes predicted until 2100, and that glaciers might start recovering after the end of the 21st century.

How to cite. Compagno, L., Eggs, S., Huss, M., Zekollari, H., and Farinotti, D.: Brief communication: Do 1.0 °C, 1.5 °C or 2.0 °C matter for the future evolution of Alpine glaciers?, The Cryosphere Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2021-31, in review, 2021.

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Recently, discussions have focused on the difference of limiting the increase in global average temperatures below 1.0, 1.5, or 2.0 °C compared to pre-industrial levels. Here, we assess the impacts that such different scenarios would have on both the future evolution of glaciers in the European Alps and the water resources they provide. Our results show that the different temperature targets have important implications for the changes predicted until 2100.
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