Fabien Maussion

Associate Professor
Bristol Glaciology Centre
School of Geographical Sciences
University of Bristol
University Road, Bristol BS8 1SS, UK
fabien.maussion@bristol.ac.uk
Personal website: fabienmaussion.info
ORCID: 0000-0002-3211-506X • GitHub: fmaussion • LinkedIn: FabClimate

Last updated: November 2026. Blue font indicates clickable links.

Professional career

Since July 2023
Associate professor at the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
2021-2023
Associate professor at the Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences (ACINN), University of Innsbruck Habilitation obtained in 2021 with the title “Numerical modelling of global glacier change”. The habilitation is the highest university degree in Germany and Austria. It certifies the ability to be a full professor in these countries.
2021
3 months research stay as “invited professor” at Université Grenoble Alpes & Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement
2015–2021
Assistant professor at ACINN, University of Innsbruck
2014–2015
Post-doc at ACINN, University of Innsbruck
2008–2014
PhD then Post-doc at the Chair of Climatology, Technische Universität Berlin
2006–2007
Interim year as engineering trainee – Space mechanics at C-S Group, Toulouse

Education

2008–2014
Technische Universität Berlin - Chair of Climatology – PhD thesis PhD Thesis defended in February 2014 with the title “A new atmospheric dataset for High Asia : development, validation and applications in climatology and in glaciology” (highest honors). Supervisor: Dieter Scherer.
2007–2008
Technische Universität Berlin – International exchange year and Master degree
2008
Master degree at SUPAÉRO – Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace, Toulouse (aerospace engineering school)

Awards

Research projects conducted as PI or Co-I

2026–2027
OGGM-Next – A Future-Proof Glacier Modelling Platform for the Decade of Action in Cryospheric Sciences (Research Software Maintenance Fund (RSMF), 200k£). PI
2025–2026
DTC-Glaciers – A Digital Twin Component for Glaciers (ESA, 500k€). PI
2025–2028
LiquidICE – LinkIng and quantifying the Impacts of climate change on inland ice, snow cover, and permafrost on water resources and society in vulnerable regions (H2020, 270k€). Co-I (total consortium 5M€).
2021–2024
PROVIDE – Paris Agreement Overshooting – Reversibility, Climate Impacts and Adaptation Needs (H2020, 230k€). Co-I (total consortium 6M€).
2022–2024
A future-ready Open Global Glacier Model (OGGM) (DFG, 180k€, co-PI)
2023–2025
HYdro power: iMpact on the ELecTricity sector in Austria due to Climate Change in glaciated high alpine areas (HyMELT-CC) (Austrian Climate Research Programme, 50k€). Co-I (total consortium 300k€).
2021–2024
UNCERTAIN – Certainties and uncertainties in the future surface mass balance of mountain glaciers (ÖAW, 120k€, together with PhD student Lilian Schuster)
2019–2023
AgroClim - Huaraz, “Water availability and water demand in the Peruvian Andes” (ÖAW, PI, 443k€)
2022
UNESCO, IACS and WGMS support for the Randolph Glacier Inventory (PI, 20k€)
2020–2022
Scaling regional sea-level changes with climate forcings (FWF, replacing previous PI Kristin Richter)
2018–2021
Modelling glacier length changes in Alps on the base of tree-ring based temperature reconstructions (Universtität Innsbruck, 120k€, Co-I)
2019–2020
“Glaciers on the Cloud: OGGM-Edu” (PI, University of Innsbruck, 20k€)
2018–2019
The Upper Grindelwald Glacier as indicator for Holocene climate variability (Tiroler Wissenschaftsförderung - PI, TWF, 10k€)

Supervision

PostDocs (current)

PostDocs (Past)

PhD theses (current)

PhD theses (completed)

Visiting PhD students

PhD theses examined (external examiner)

25 completed master and bachelor theses. For a full list, visit my personal website.

Contributions to open source software and open data

OGGM
Open-source global glacier evolution modelling framework (oggm.org). In active development since 2016, used by several research groups worldwide and in more than 25 publications, 3 completed and 8 ongoing PhD projects. Project leader.
OGGM-Edu
Educational platform about glaciers based on the OGGM model (edu.oggm.org). Interactive applications, open-source graphics and computational notebooks applicable for teaching at the university level and for workshops. Project leader.
xarray
Array manipulation software (xarray.pydata.org) very commonly used in all fields of geosciences. Core developer 2015-2019.
salem
Map visualization and WRF model analysis software based on xarray. Main developer.
HAR
High Asia Refined analysis (HAR), openly accessible high-resolution climate dataset for the Tibetan Plateau and adjacent regions, which has facilitated an estimated several dozens of peer-reviewed publications. Main developer.
RGI
Suite of scripting tools and data accompanying the production process of the Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI). Project Co-chair.

Administration and leadership

Other activities & services to the community

Teaching

At University of Innsbruck (until 2023)

At University of Bristol (since 2023)

For a full list of past classes and links to annual student evaluations, visit my personal website.

List of publications

h-index 37 (google scholar June 2026)

Publications written by a student under my supervision are indicated with (*).

Preprints

  1. Jouvet, G., Cook, S., Cordonnier, G., Finley, B., Henz, A., Herrmann, O., Maussion, F., Mey, J., Scherler, D., & Welty, E. (2026). Concepts and capabilities of the Instructed Glacier Model. EarthArXiv [preprint]. doi:10.31223/x5t99c
  2. van der Laan, L. N., Hock, R., Brunner, J., Yilmaz, Y. A., Wilson, C., Schuster, L., van Tricht, L., Yang, R., Zekollari, H., Huss, M., Marzeion, B., Maussion, F., Rounce, D. R., & Fürst, J. J. (2026). The Glacier Model Intercomparison Project (GlacierMIP): Towards standardisation of global glacier projections. arXiv [preprint]. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2610.22005
  3. *Richter, J. N., Arndt, A., Ban, N., Gampierakis, N., Maussion, F., Prinz, R., Scheiter, M., Umlauf, N., & Nicholson, L. (2026). Towards the Bayesian calibration of a glacier surface energy balance model for unmonitored glaciers. EGUsphere [preprint]. doi:10.5194/egusphere-2025-6249

Peer-reviewed

  1. *Schmitt, P., Maussion, F., Goldberg, D. N., & Gregor, P. (2026). AGILE v0.1: The Open Global Glacier Data Assimilation Framework. Geoscientific Model Development, 19. doi:10.5194/gmd-19-1301-2026
  2. Tober, B. S., Rounce, D. R., Brinkerhoff, D. J., Loso, M. G., Schmitt, P., & Maussion, F. (2026). Projections of 21st-century glacier change in Alaska’s national parks calibrated against spatially distributed elevation change observations. J. Glaciol., 72, e72. doi:10.1017/jog.2026.10186
  3. Steiner, J., Armstrong, W., Kochtitzky, W., McNabb, R., Aguayo, R., Bolch, T., Maussion, F., …, Zheng, W. (2026). Global mapping of lake-terminating glaciers. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18(2), 1665–1681. doi:10.5194/essd-18-1665-2026
  4. *Schuster, L., Maussion, F., Rounce, D., Ultee, L., Schmitt, P., Lacroix, F., Frölicher, T., & Schleussner, C.F. (2025). Irreversible glacier change and trough water for centuries after overshooting 1.5°C. Nature Climate Change, 15(6), 634–641. doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02318-w
  5. *Hartl, L., Schmitt, P., Schuster, L., Helfricht, K., Abermann, J., & Maussion, F. (2025). Recent observations and glacier modeling point towards near-complete glacier loss in western Austria (Ötztal and Stubai mountain range) if 1.5 °C is not met. The Cryosphere, 19(3), 1431–1452. doi:10.5194/tc-19-1431-2025
  6. *Zekollari, H., Schuster, L., Maussion, F., Hock, R., Marzeion, B., Rounce, D. R., …, Sakai, A. (2025). Glacier preservation doubled by limiting warming to 1.5°C versus 2.7°C. Science, 388(6750), 979–983. doi:10.1126/science.adu4675
  7. Weathers, M., Rounce, D. R., Fasullo, J., & Maussion, F. (2025). Evaluating the Role of Internal Climate Variability and Bias Adjustment Methods on Decadal Glacier Projections. Earth’s Future, 13(7). doi:10.1029/2024EF005624
  8. Pfleiderer, P., Frölicher, T. L., Kropf, C. M., Lamboll, R. D., Lejeune, Q., Capela Lourenço, T., Maussion, F., McCaughey, J. W., Quilcaille, Y., Rogelj, J., Sanderson, B., Schuster, L., Sillmann, J., Smith, C., Theokritoff, E., & Schleussner, C.-F. (2025). Reversal of the impact chain for actionable climate information. Nature Geoscience, 18(1), 10–19. doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01597-w
  9. Wimberly, F., Ultee, L., Schuster, L., Huss, M., Rounce, D. R., Maussion, F., Coats, S., Mackay, J., & Holmgren, E. (2025). Inter-model differences in 21st century glacier runoff for the world’s major river basins. The Cryosphere, 19(4), 1491–1511. doi:10.5194/tc-19-1491-2025
  10. The GlaMBIE Team (2025). Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023. Nature, 639(8054), 382–388. doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08545-z
  11. *Aguayo, R., Zekollari, H., Hanus, S., Baez‐Villanueva, O. M., Mendoza, P. A., & Maussion, F. (2025). Hybrid glacio‐hydrological modeling reveals contrasting runoff changes in Western Patagonia over the 21st century. Earth’s Future. doi:10.1029/2025EF006442
  12. Kneib, M., Maussion, F., Brun, F., Carcanade, G., Farinotti, D., Huss, M., van Tiel, M., Jouberton, A., Schmitt, P., Schuster, L., Dehecq, A., & Champollion, N. (2025). Topographically-controlled contribution of avalanches to glacier mass balance in the 21st century. Nature Communications. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-65608-z
  13. Sjursen, K. H., Bolibar, J., van der Meer, M., Andreassen, L. M., Biesheuvel, J. P., Dunse, T., Huss, M., Maussion, F., Rounce, D. R., & Tober, B. S. (2025). Machine learning improves seasonal mass balance prediction for unmonitored glaciers. The Cryosphere, 19, 5801–5826. doi:10.5194/tc-19-5801-2025
  14. van Tricht, L., Zekollari, H., Huss, M., Rounce, D. R., Schuster, L., Aguayo, R., Schmitt, P., Maussion, F., Tober, B. S., & Farinotti, D. (2025). Peak glacier extinction in the mid-twenty-first century. Nature Climate Change. doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02513-9
  15. van der Laan, L., Vlug, A., Scaife, A. A., Maussion, F., & Förster, K. (2025). Decadal re-forecasts of glacier climatic mass balance. The Cryosphere, 19. doi:10.5194/tc-19-3879-2025
  16. Zekollari, H., Huss, M., Schuster, L., Maussion, F., Rounce, D. R., Aguayo, R., Champollion, N., Compagno, L., Hugonnet, R., Marzeion, B., Mojtabavi, S., & Farinotti, D. (2024). Twenty-first century global glacier evolution under CMIP6 scenarios and the role of glacier-specific observations. The Cryosphere, 18(11), 5045–5066. doi:10.5194/tc-18-5045-2024
  17. Schleussner, C., …, Rogelj, J. (2024). Overconfidence in climate overshoot. Nature, 634(8033), 366–373. doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08020-9
  18. *Aguayo, R., Maussion, F., Schuster, L., Schaefer, M., Caro, A., Schmitt, P., Mackay, J., Ultee, L., Leon-Muñoz, J., & Aguayo, M. (2024). Unravelling the sources of uncertainty in glacier runoff projections in the Patagonian Andes (40–56° S). The Cryosphere, 18(11), 5383–5406. doi:10.5194/tc-18-5383-2024
  19. Hanus, S., Schuster, L., Burek, P., Maussion, F., Wada, Y., & Viviroli, D. (2024). Coupling a large-scale glacier and hydrological model (OGGM v1.5.3 and CWatM V1.08) - towards an improved representation of mountain water resources in global assessments. Geoscientific Model Development, 17(13), 5123–5144. doi:10.5194/gmd-17-5123-2024
  20. Kneib, M., Dehecq, A., Brun, F., Karbou, F., Charrier, L., Leinss, S., Wagnon, P., & Maussion, F. (2024). Mapping and characterization of avalanches on mountain glaciers with Sentinel-1 satellite imagery. The Cryosphere, 18(6), 2809–2830. doi:10.5194/tc-18-2809-2024
  21. Bolibar, J., Sapienza, F., Maussion, F., Lguensat, R., Wouters, B., & Pérez, F. (2023). Universal differential equations for glacier ice flow modelling. Geoscientific Model Development, 16(22), 6671–6687. doi:10.5194/gmd-16-6671-2023
  22. Klein, C., Potter, E. R., Zauner, C., Gurgiser, W., Cruz Encarnación, R., Cochachín Rapre, A., & Maussion, F. (2023). Farmers’ first rain: investigating dry season rainfall characteristics in the Peruvian Andes. Environmental Research Communications, 5(7), 071004. doi:10.1088/2515-7620/ace516
  23. *Schuster, L., Rounce, D., & Maussion, F. (2023). Glacier projections sensitivity to temperature-index model choices and calibration strategies. Ann. Glaciol., 1–16. doi:10.1017/aog.2023.57
  24. *Malles, J., Maussion, F., Ultee, L., Kochtitzky, W., Copland, L., & Marzeion, B. (2023). Exploring the impact of a frontal ablation parameterization on projected 21st-century mass change for Northern Hemisphere glaciers. J. Glaciol., 1–16. doi:10.1017/jog.2023.19
  25. Recinos, B., Maussion, F., & Marzeion, B. (2023). Advances in data availability to constrain and evaluate frontal ablation of ice-dynamical models of Greenland’s tidewater peripheral glaciers. Ann. Glaciol., 1–7. doi:10.1017/aog.2023.11
  26. Rounce, D. R., Hock, R., Maussion, F., Hugonnet, R., Kochtitzky, W., Huss, M., Berthier, E., Brinkerhoff, D., Compagno, L., Copland, L., Farinotti, D., Menounos, B., & McNabb, R. W. (2023). Global glacier change in the 21st century: Every increase in temperature matters. Science, 379(6627), 78–83. doi:10.1126/science.abo1324
  27. Hock, R., Maussion, F., Marzeion, B., & Nowicki, S. (2023). What is the global glacier ice volume outside the ice sheets? J. Glaciol., 69(273), 204–210. doi:10.1017/jog.2023.1
  28. Klein, C., Hänchen, L., Potter, E. R., Junquas, C., Harris, B. L., & Maussion, F. (2023). Untangling the importance of dynamic and thermodynamic drivers for wet and dry spells across the Tropical Andes. Environ. Res. Lett., 18(3), 034002. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/acb72b
  29. Windnagel, A., Hock, R., Maussion, F., Paul, F., Rastner, P., Raup, B., & Zemp, M. (2023). Which glaciers are the largest in the world? J. Glaciol., 69(274), 301–310. doi:10.1017/jog.2022.61
  30. Gangadharan, N., Goosse, H., Parkes, D., Goelzer, H., Maussion, F., & Marzeion, B. (2022). Process-based estimate of global-mean sea-level changes in the Common Era. Earth Syst. Dyn., 13(4), 1417–1435. doi:10.5194/esd-13-1417-2022
  31. *Li, F., Maussion, F., Wu, G., Chen, W., Yu, Z., Li, Y., & Liu, G. (2022). Influence of glacier inventories on ice thickness estimates and future glacier change projections in the Tian Shan range, Central Asia. J. Glaciol., 1–15. doi:10.1017/jog.2022.60
  32. *Hänchen, L., Klein, C., Maussion, F., Gurgiser, W., Calanca, P., & Wohlfahrt, G. (2022). Widespread greening suggests increased dry-season plant water availability in the Rio Santa valley, Peruvian Andes. Earth Syst. Dyn., 13(1), 595–611. doi:10.5194/esd-13-595-2022
  33. Furian, W., Maussion, F., & Schneider, C. (2022). Projected 21st-Century Glacial Lake Evolution in High Mountain Asia. Front. Earth Sci., 10. doi:10.3389/feart.2022.821798
  34. Azam, M. F., Kargel, J. S., Shea, J. M., Nepal, S., Haritashya, U. K., Srivastava, S., Maussion, F., Qazi, N., Chevallier, P., Dimri, A. P., Kulkarni, A. V., Cogley, J. G., & Bahuguna, I. (2021). Glaciohydrology of the Himalaya-Karakoram. Science, 373(6557), eabf3668. doi:10.1126/science.abf3668
  35. Edwards, T. L., …, Zwinger, T. (2021). Projected land ice contributions to twenty-first-century sea level rise. Nature, 593(7857), 74–82. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03302-y
  36. *Eis, J., van der Laan, L., Maussion, F., & Marzeion, B. (2021). Reconstruction of Past Glacier Changes with an Ice-Flow Glacier Model: Proof of Concept and Validation. Front. Earth Sci., 9, 1–16. doi:10.3389/feart.2021.595755
  37. Rounce, D. R., Hock, R., McNabb, R. W., Millan, R., Sommer, C., Braun, M. H., Malz, P., Maussion, F., Mouginot, J., Seehaus, T. C., & Shean, D. E. (2021). Distributed global debris thickness estimates reveal debris significantly impacts glacier mass balance. Geophys. Res. Lett. doi:10.1029/2020GL091311
  38. *Recinos, B., Maussion, F., Noël, B., Möller, M., & Marzeion, B. (2021). Calibration of a frontal ablation parameterisation applied to Greenland’s peripheral calving glaciers. J. Glaciol., 1–13. doi:10.1017/jog.2021.63
  39. *Schuster, L., Maussion, F., Langhamer, L., & Moseley, G. E. (2021). Lagrangian detection of precipitation moisture sources for an arid region in northeast Greenland: relations to the North Atlantic Oscillation, sea ice cover, and temporal trends from 1979 to 2017. Weather Clim. Dyn., 2(1), 1–17. doi:10.5194/wcd-2-1-2021
  40. Marzeion, B., Hock, R., Anderson, B., Bliss, A., Champollion, N., Fujita, K., Huss, M., Immerzeel, W., Kraaijenbrink, P., Malles, J., Maussion, F., Radić, V., Rounce, D. R., Sakai, A., Shannon, S., Wal, R., & Zekollari, H. (2020). Partitioning the Uncertainty of Ensemble Projections of Global Glacier Mass Change. Earth’s Future, 8(7). doi:10.1029/2019ef001470
  41. Pelto, B. M., Maussion, F., Menounos, B., Radić, V., & Zeuner, M. (2020). Bias-corrected estimates of glacier thickness in the Columbia River Basin, Canada. J. Glaciol., 1–13. doi:10.1017/jog.2020.75
  42. Zemp, M., Huss, M., Thibert, E., Eckert, N., McNabb, R., Huber, J., Barandun, M., Machguth, H., Nussbaumer, S. U., Gärtner-Roer, I., Thomson, L., Paul, F., Maussion, F., Kutuzov, S., & Cogley, J. G. (2019). Global glacier mass changes and their contributions to sea-level rise from 1961 to 2016. Nature, 568(7752), 382–386. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1071-0
  43. *Recinos, B., Maussion, F., Rothenpieler, T., & Marzeion, B. (2019). Impact of frontal ablation on the ice thickness estimation of marine-terminating glaciers in Alaska. The Cryosphere, 13(10), 2657–2672. doi:10.5194/tc-13-2657-2019
  44. Maussion, F., Butenko, A., Champollion, N., Dusch, M., Eis, J., Fourteau, K., Gregor, P., Jarosch, A. H., Landmann, J., Oesterle, F., Recinos, B., Rothenpieler, T., Vlug, A., Wild, C. T., & Marzeion, B. (2019). The Open Global Glacier Model (OGGM) v1.1. Geoscientific Model Development, 12(3), 909–931. doi:10.5194/gmd-12-909-2019
  45. Horak, J., Hofer, M., Maussion, F., Gutmann, E., Gohm, A., & Rotach, M. W. (2019). Assessing the added value of the Intermediate Complexity Atmospheric Research (ICAR) model for precipitation in complex topography. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 23(6), 2715–2734. doi:10.5194/hess-23-2715-2019
  46. *Eis, J., Maussion, F., & Marzeion, B. (2019). Initialization of a global glacier model based on present-day glacier geometry and past climate information: an ensemble approach. The Cryosphere, 13(12), 3317–3335. doi:10.5194/tc-13-3317-2019
  47. *Zolles, T., Maussion, F., Galos, S. P., Gurgiser, W., & Nicholson, L. (2019). Robust uncertainty assessment of the spatio-temporal transferability of glacier mass and energy balance models. The Cryosphere, 13(2), 469–489. doi:10.5194/tc-13-469-2019
  48. Farinotti, D., Huss, M., Fürst, J. J., Landmann, J., Machguth, H., Maussion, F., & Pandit, A. (2019). A consensus estimate for the ice thickness distribution of all glaciers on Earth. Nature Geoscience, 12(3), 168–173. doi:10.1038/s41561-019-0300-3
  49. Strasser, U., Marke, T., Braun, L., Escher-Vetter, H., Juen, I., Kuhn, M., Maussion, F., Mayer, C., Nicholson, L., Niedertscheider, K., Sailer, R., Stötter, J., Weber, M., & Kaser, G. (2018). The Rofental: a high Alpine research basin (1890–3770 m a.s.l.) in the Ötztal Alps (Austria) with over 150 years of hydrometeorological and glaciological observations. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10(1), 151–171. doi:10.5194/essd-10-151-2018
  50. Goosse, H., Barriat, P.-Y., Dalaiden, Q., Klein, F., Marzeion, B., Maussion, F., Pelucchi, P., & Vlug, A. (2018). Testing the consistency between changes in simulated climate and Alpine glacier length over the past millennium. Clim. Past, 14(8), 1119–1133. doi:10.5194/cp-14-1119-2018
  51. Marzeion, B., Kaser, G., Maussion, F., & Champollion, N. (2018). Limited influence of climate change mitigation on short-term glacier mass loss. Nature Climate Change, 8. doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0093-1
  52. Mölg, T., Maussion, F., Collier, E., Chiang, J. C. H., & Scherer, D. (2017). Prominent mid-latitude circulation signature in High Asia’s surface climate during monsoon. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 1–11. doi:10.1002/2017JD027414
  53. Galos, S. P., Klug, C., Maussion, F., Covi, F., Nicholson, L., Rieg, L., Gurgiser, W., Mölg, T., & Kaser, G. (2017). Reanalysis of a 10-year record (2004–2013) of seasonal mass balances at Langenferner/Vedretta Lunga, Ortler Alps, Italy. The Cryosphere, 11(3), 1417–1439. doi:10.5194/tc-11-1417-2017
  54. Farinotti, D., Brinkerhoff, D. J., Clarke, G. K. C., Fürst, J. J., Frey, H., Gantayat, P., Gillet-Chaulet, F., Girard, C., Huss, M., Leclercq, P. W., Linsbauer, A., Machguth, H., Martin, C., Maussion, F., Morlighem, M., Mosbeux, C., Pandit, A., Portmann, A., Rabatel, A., Ramsankaran, R., Reerink, T. J., Sanchez, O., Stentoft, P. A., Singh Kumari, S., van Pelt, W. J. J., Anderson, B., Benham, T., Binder, D., Dowdeswell, J. A., Fischer, A., Helfricht, K., Kutuzov, S., Lavrentiev, I., McNabb, R., Gudmundsson, G. H., Li, H., & Andreassen, L. M. (2017). How accurate are estimates of glacier ice thickness? Results from ITMIX, the Ice Thickness Models Intercomparison eXperiment. The Cryosphere, 11(2), 949–970. doi:10.5194/tc-11-949-2017
  55. Spiess, M., Schneider, C., & Maussion, F. (2016). MODIS-derived interannual variability of the equilibrium line altitude across the Tibetan Plateau. Ann. Glaciol., 57(71), 140–154. doi:10.3189/2016AoG71A014
  56. Otto, M., Höpfner, C., Curio, J., Maussion, F., & Scherer, D. (2016). Assessing vegetation response to precipitation in northwest Morocco during the last decade: an application of MODIS NDVI and high resolution reanalysis data. Theor. Appl. Climatol., 123(1–2), 23–41. doi:10.1007/s00704-014-1344-3
  57. Biskop, S., Maussion, F., Krause, P., & Fink, M. (2016). Differences in the water-balance components of four lakes in the southern-central Tibetan Plateau. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 20, 209–225. doi:10.5194/hess-20-209-2016
  58. Zhu, M., Yao, T., Yang, W., Maussion, F., Huintjes, E., & Li, S. (2015). Energy- and mass-balance comparison between Zhadang and Parlung No. 4 glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau. J. Glaciol., 61(227), 595–607. doi:10.3189/2015JoG14J206
  59. Spiess, M., Maussion, F., Möller, M., Scherer, D., & Schneider, C. (2015). MODIS derived equilibrium line altitude estimates for Purogangri ice cap, Tibetan Plateau, and their relation to climatic predictors (2001–2012). Geogr. Ann. Ser. A, Phys. Geogr., 97(3), 599–614. doi:10.1111/geoa.12102
  60. Huintjes, E., Sauter, T., Schröter, B., Maussion, F., Yang, W., Kropáček, J., Buchroithner, M., Scherer, D., Kang, S., & Schneider, C. (2015). Evaluation of a Coupled Snow and Energy Balance Model for Zhadang Glacier, Tibetan Plateau, Using Glaciological Measurements and Time-Lapse Photography. Arctic, Antarct. Alp. Res., 47(3), 573–590. doi:10.1657/AAAR0014-073
  61. Curio, J., Maussion, F., & Scherer, D. (2015). A 12-year high-resolution climatology of atmospheric water transport over the Tibetan Plateau. Earth Syst. Dyn., 6(1), 109–124. doi:10.5194/esd-6-109-2015
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