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Articles | Volume 13, issue 2
Articles | Volume 13, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-13-935-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-13-935-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 13, issue 2
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Glacial runoff buffers droughts through the 21st century

Lizz Ultee, Sloan Coats, and Jonathan Mackay

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Global climate models suggest that droughts could worsen over the coming century. In mountain basins with glaciers, glacial runoff can ease droughts, but glaciers are retreating worldwide. We analyzed how one measure of drought conditions changes when accounting for glacial runoff that changes over time. Surprisingly, we found that glacial runoff can continue to buffer drought throughout the 21st century in most cases, even as the total amount of runoff declines.
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