Vincent, C. Fischer, A. Mayer, C. Bauder, Andreas Galos, S. P. Funk, Martin Thibert, E. Six, D. Braun, L. Huss, Matthias 2017-02-16 Conventional glacier-wide mass balances are commonly used to study the effect of climate forcing on glacier melt. Unfortunately, the glacier-wide mass balances are also influenced by the glacier's dynamic response. Investigations on the effects of climate forcing on glaciers can be largely improved by analyzing point mass balances. Using a statistical model, we have found that 52% of the year-to-year deviations in the point mass balances of six glaciers distributed across the entire European Alps can be attributed to a common variability. Point mass balance changes reveal remarkable regional consistencies reaching 80% for glaciers less than 10 km apart. Compared to the steady state conditions of the 1962–1982 period, the surface mass balance changes are −0.85 m water equivalent (w.e.) a⁻¹ for 1983–2002 and −1.63 m w.e. a⁻¹ for 2003–2013. This indicates a clear and regionally consistent acceleration of mass loss over recent decades over the entire European Alps. application/pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/305521 https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/305521/files/hus_ccs.pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/305521/files/hus_ccs_sm.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1002/2016GL072094 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined Geophysical Research Letters. - 2017, vol. 44, no. 3, p. 1376–1383 info:eu-repo/classification/udc/556 Common climatic signal from glaciers in the European Alps over the last 50 years http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501