publications and preprints

2025

1. Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023

   Michael Zemp, Livia Jakob, Inés Dussaillant, Samuel U. Nussbaumer, Noel Gourmelen, Sophie Dubber, Geruo A, Sahra Abdullahi, Liss Marie Andreassen, Etienne Berthier, Atanu Bhattacharya, Alejandro Blazquez, Laura F. Boehm Vock, Tobias Bolch, Jason Box, Matthias H. Braun, Fanny Brun, Eric Cicero, William Colgan, Nicolas Eckert, Daniel Farinotti, Caitlyn Florentine, Dana Floricioiu, Alex Gardner, Christopher Harig, Javed Hassan, Romain Hugonnet, Matthias Huss, Tómas Jóhannesson, Chia-Chun Angela Liang, Chang-Qing Ke, Shfaqat Abbas Khan, Owen King, Marin Kneib, Lukas Krieger, Fabien Maussion, Enrico Mattea, Robert McNabb, Brian Menounos, Evan Miles, Geir Moholdt, Johan Nilsson, Finnur Pálsson, Julia Pfeffer, Livia Piermattei, Stephen Plummer, Andreas Richter, Ingo Sasgen, Lilian Schuster, Thorsten Seehaus, Xiaoyi Shen, Christian Sommer, Tyler Sutterley, Désirée Treichler, Isabella Velicogna, Bert Wouters, Harry Zekollari, and Whyjay Zheng

   Nature, Feb 2025

   DOI Bib

   @article{Zemp2025,
     author = {Zemp, Michael and Jakob, Livia and Dussaillant, In{\'{e}}s and Nussbaumer, Samuel U. and Gourmelen, Noel and Dubber, Sophie and A, Geruo and Abdullahi, Sahra and Andreassen, Liss Marie and Berthier, Etienne and Bhattacharya, Atanu and Blazquez, Alejandro and {Boehm Vock}, Laura F. and Bolch, Tobias and Box, Jason and Braun, Matthias H. and Brun, Fanny and Cicero, Eric and Colgan, William and Eckert, Nicolas and Farinotti, Daniel and Florentine, Caitlyn and Floricioiu, Dana and Gardner, Alex and Harig, Christopher and Hassan, Javed and Hugonnet, Romain and Huss, Matthias and J{\'{o}}hannesson, T{\'{o}}mas and Liang, Chia-Chun Angela and Ke, Chang-Qing and Khan, Shfaqat Abbas and King, Owen and Kneib, Marin and Krieger, Lukas and Maussion, Fabien and Mattea, Enrico and McNabb, Robert and Menounos, Brian and Miles, Evan and Moholdt, Geir and Nilsson, Johan and P{\'{a}}lsson, Finnur and Pfeffer, Julia and Piermattei, Livia and Plummer, Stephen and Richter, Andreas and Sasgen, Ingo and Schuster, Lilian and Seehaus, Thorsten and Shen, Xiaoyi and Sommer, Christian and Sutterley, Tyler and Treichler, D{\'{e}}sir{\'{e}}e and Velicogna, Isabella and Wouters, Bert and Zekollari, Harry and Zheng, Whyjay},
     doi = {10.1038/s41586-024-08545-z},
     journal = {Nature},
     month = feb,
     number = {July},
     title = {{Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023}},
     volume = {2024},
     year = {2025},
   }

2. Reversal of the impact chain for actionable climate information

   Peter Pfleiderer, Thomas L. Frölicher, Chahan M. Kropf, Robin D. Lamboll, Quentin Lejeune, Tiago Capela Lourenço, Fabien Maussion, Jamie McCaughey, Yann Quilcaille, Joeri Rogelj, Benjamin Sanderson, Lilian Schuster, Jana Sillmann, Chris Smith, Emily Theokritoff, and Carl-Friedrich Schleussner

   Nature Geosciences, Jan 2025

   DOI Bib PDF

   @article{Pfleiderer2025,
     author = {Pfleiderer, Peter and Frölicher, Thomas L. and Kropf, Chahan M. and Lamboll, Robin D. and Lejeune, Quentin and Lourenço, Tiago Capela and Maussion, Fabien and McCaughey, Jamie and Quilcaille, Yann and Rogelj, Joeri and Sanderson, Benjamin and Schuster, Lilian and Sillmann, Jana and Smith, Chris and Theokritoff, Emily and Schleussner, Carl-Friedrich},
     title = {Reversal of the impact chain for actionable climate information},
     year = {2025},
     month = jan,
     doi = {10.1038/s41561-024-01597-w},
     journal = {Nature Geosciences},
   }

2024

1. 

   Inter-model differences in 21st Century Glacier Runoff for the World’s Major River Basins

   Finn Wimberly, Lizz Ultee, Lilian Schuster, Matthias Huss, David R. Rounce, Fabien Maussion, Sload Coats, Jonathan Mackay, and Erik Holmgren

   Jan 2024

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2. 

   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

   Lea Hartl, Patrick Schmitt, Lilian Schuster, Kai Helfricht, Jakob Abermann, and Fabien Maussion

   Jan 2024

   Hartl and Schmitt contributed equally.

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3. 

   Irreversible glacier change and trough water for centuries after overshooting 1.5°C

   Lilian Schuster, Fabien Maussion, David R Rounce, Lizz Ultee, Patrick Schmitt, Fabrice Lacroix, Thomas Frölicher, and Carl-Friedrich Schleussner

   Sep 2024

   Preprint (version 1) available at the DOI

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4. 

   Glacier preservation doubled by limiting warming to 1.5°C

   Harry Zekollari, Lilian Schuster, Fabien Maussion, Regine Hock, Ben Marzeion, David R. Rounce, Loris Compagno, Koji Fujita, Matthias Huss, Megan James, Philip D. A. Kraaijenbrink, William H. Lipscomb, Samar Minallah, Moritz Oberrauch, Lander Van Tricht, Nicolas Champollion, Tamsin Edwards, Daniel Farinotti, Walter Immerzeel, Gunter Leguy, and Akiko Sakai

   Dec 2024

   Harry Zekollari and Lilian Schuster contributed equally. Preprint (version 1) available at the DOI

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5. Twenty-first century global glacier evolution under CMIP6 scenarios and the role of glacier-specific observations

   Harry Zekollari, Matthias Huss, Lilian Schuster, Fabien Maussion, David R. Rounce, Rodrigo Aguayo, Nicolas Champollion, Loris Compagno, Romain Hugonnet, Ben Marzeion, Seyedhamidreza Mojtabavi, and Daniel Farinotti

   The Cryosphere, Dec 2024

   DOI Bib

   @article{Zekollari2024_cmip6_protect,
     author = {Zekollari, Harry and Huss, Matthias and Schuster, Lilian and Maussion, Fabien and Rounce, David R. and Aguayo, Rodrigo and Champollion, Nicolas and Compagno, Loris and Hugonnet, Romain and Marzeion, Ben and Mojtabavi, Seyedhamidreza and Farinotti, Daniel},
     title = {{Twenty-first century global glacier evolution under CMIP6 scenarios and the role of glacier-specific observations}},
     year = {2024},
     volume = {18},
     pages = {5045–5066},
     journal = {{The Cryosphere}},
     doi = {10.5194/tc-18-5045-2024},
   }

6. Unravelling the sources of uncertainty in glacier runoff projections in the Patagonian Andes (40–56°S)

   Rodrigo Aguayo, Fabien Maussion, Lilian Schuster, Marius Schaefer, Alexis Caro, Patrick Schmitt, Jonathan Mackay, Lizz Ultee, Jorge Leon-Muñoz, and Mauricio Aguayo

   The Cryosphere, Dec 2024

   DOI Bib

   @article{Aguayo2024,
     author = {Aguayo, Rodrigo and Maussion, Fabien and Schuster, Lilian and Schaefer, Marius and Caro, Alexis and Schmitt, Patrick and Mackay, Jonathan and Ultee, Lizz and Leon-Muñoz, Jorge and Aguayo, Mauricio},
     title = {Unravelling the sources of uncertainty in glacier runoff projections in the Patagonian Andes (40--56°S)},
     journal = {The Cryosphere},
     volume = {18},
     year = {2024},
     number = {11},
     pages = {5383--5406},
     url = {https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/18/5383/2024/},
     doi = {10.5194/tc-18-5383-2024},
   }

7. 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

   Sarah Hanus, Lilian Schuster, Peter Burek, Fabien Maussion, Yoshihide Wada, and Daniel Viviroli

   Geoscientific Model Development, Jul 2024

   DOI Bib

   @article{hanus2024coupling,
     title = {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},
     author = {Hanus, Sarah and Schuster, Lilian and Burek, Peter and Maussion, Fabien and Wada, Yoshihide and Viviroli, Daniel},
     journal = {Geoscientific Model Development},
     volume = {17},
     number = {13},
     pages = {5123--5144},
     year = {2024},
     month = jul,
     publisher = {Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany},
     doi = {10.5194/gmd-17-5123-2024},
   }

2023

1. Glacier projections sensitivity to temperature-index model choices and calibration strategies

   Lilian Schuster, David R. Rounce, and Fabien Maussion

   Annals of Glaciology, Jul 2023

   DOI Bib

   @article{Schuster2023,
     title = {Glacier projections sensitivity to temperature-index model choices and calibration strategies},
     volume = {64},
     doi = {10.1017/aog.2023.57},
     number = {92},
     journal = {Annals of Glaciology},
     author = {Schuster, Lilian and Rounce, David R. and Maussion, Fabien},
     year = {2023},
     pages = {293–308},
   }

2. Brief communication: The Glacier Loss Day as an indicator of a record-breaking negative glacier mass balance in 2022

   Annelies Voordendag, Rainer Prinz, Lilian Schuster, and Georg Kaser

   The Cryosphere, Jul 2023

   DOI Bib

   @article{Voordendag2023,
     author = {Voordendag, Annelies and Prinz, Rainer and Schuster, Lilian and Kaser, Georg},
     doi = {10.5194/tc-17-3661-2023},
     issn = {19940424},
     journal = {The Cryosphere},
     title = {{Brief communication: The Glacier Loss Day as an indicator of a record-breaking negative glacier mass balance in 2022}},
     year = {2023},
   }

2021

1. 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

   Lilian Schuster, Fabien Maussion, Lukas Langhamer, and Gina E. Moseley

   Jul 2021

   DOI Bib

   @article{wcd-2-1-2021,
     author = {Schuster, Lilian and Maussion, Fabien and Langhamer, Lukas and Moseley, Gina E.},
     title = {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},
     volume = {2},
     year = {2021},
     number = {1},
     pages = {1--17},
     url = {https://wcd.copernicus.org/articles/2/1/2021/},
     doi = {10.5194/wcd-2-1-2021},
   }