WG: Climate Geography
change the seasonal availability of water in many drainage basins and influence geohazards in high mountain settings. Glaciers respond to climate change with a delay of decades to centuries. This implies [...] mass changes. Moreover, their representativeness for the mass changes of the surrounding larger mountain region is only known for a few regions, probably variable over time, and simple extrapolation schemes [...] Change Caused by Glacier Mass Change Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), 2016 - 2019 Mountain glaciers and ice caps are responsible for almost one third of the current rate of sea-level rise