2025
Shaw, T. E., Miles, E. S., McCarthy, M., Buri, P., Guyennon, N., Salerno, F., Carturan, L., Brock, B., & Pellicciotti, F. (2025). Mountain glaciers recouple to atmospheric warming over the twenty-first century. Nature Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02449-0
Jouberton, A., Shaw, T. E., Miles, E., Kneib, M., Fugger, S., Buri, P., Mccarthy, M., Kayumov, A., Navruzshoev, H., Halimov, A., Kabutov, K., Homidov, F., & Pellicciotti, F. (2025). Snowfall decrease in recent years undermines glacier health and meltwater resources in the Northwestern Pamirs . Communications Earth & Environment, 6, 691. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02611-8
Nicholson, L., Stiperski, I., Nitti, G., Prinz, R., Georgi, A., Groos, A. R., Shaw, T. E., Sauter, T., Haugeneder, M., Mott, R., Sicart, J.-E., Brock, B. W., Albers, R., Allegri, B., Barral, H., Biron, R., Charrondiere, C., Coulaud, C., Fischer, A., … Wydra, C. (2025). The second HinterEisFerner EXperiment (HEFEX II): Initial insights into boundary layer structure and surface-atmosphere exchange processes from intensive observations at a valley glacier. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0010.1
Fontrodona-Bach, A., Groeneveld, L., Miles, E., McCarthy, M., Shaw, T., Melo Velasco, V., & Pellicciotti, F. (2025). DebDaB: a database of supraglacial debris thickness and physical properties. Earth System Science Data, 17(8), 4213–4234. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-4213-2025
Fyffe, Catriona Louise, Emily Potter, Evan Miles, Thomas Shaw, Michael McCarthy, Andrew Orr, Edwin Loarte, et al. “Thin and Ephemeral Snow Shapes Melt and Runoff Dynamics in the Peruvian Andes.” Communications Earth and Environment. Springer Nature, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02379-x.
Bernat, M., Miles, E. S., Kneib, M., Fujita, K., Sasaki, O., Shaw, T. E., & Pellicciotti, F. (2025). Precipitation phase drives seasonal and decadal snowline changes in high mountain Asia. Environmental Research Letters , 20(6). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adcf39
Melo Velasco, Juan Vicente, Evan Miles, Michael McCarthy, Thomas Shaw, Catriona Louise Fyffe, Adrià Fontrodona-Bach, and Francesca Pellicciotti. “Method Dependence in Thermal Conductivity and Aerodynamic Roughness Length Estimates on a Debris‐covered Glacier.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. Wiley, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025jf008360.
N. Bulovic, F. Johnson, H. Lievens, T. Shaw, J. McPhee, S. Gascoin, M. Demuzere, N. Mcintyre. Evaluating the performance of sentinel-1 SAR derived snow depth retrievals over the extratropical Andes cordillera. Water Resources Research 61 (2025).
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L. Chen, P. Brun, P. Buri, S. Fatichi, A. Gessler, M. McCarthy, F. Pellicciotti, B. Stocker, D.N. Karger, Global increase in the occurrence and impact of multiyear droughts. Science 387 (2025) 278–284.
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2024
van Tiel M, Aubry-Wake C, Somers L, Andermann C, Avanzi F, Baraer M, Chiogna G, Daigre C, Das S, Drenkhan F, Farinotti D, Fyffe CL, de Graaf I, Hanus S, Immerzeel W, Koch F, McKenzie JM, Müller T, Popp AL, Saidaliyeva Z, Schaefli B, Schilling OS, Teagai K, Thornton JM, Yapiyev V. 2024. Cryosphere–groundwater connectivity is a missing link in the mountain water cycle. Nature Water. 2, 624–637.View | DOI
Shaw, Thomas, Pascal Buri, Michael McCarthy, Evan S. Miles, and Francesca Pellicciotti. “Local Controls on Near-Surface Glacier Cooling under Warm Atmospheric Conditions.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. Wiley, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD040214.
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Fugger, Stefan, Thomas Shaw, Achille Jouberton, Evan Miles, Pascal Buri, Michael McCarthy, Catriona Louise Fyffe, et al. “Hydrological Regimes and Evaporative Flux Partitioning at the Climatic Ends of High Mountain Asia.” Environmental Research Letters. IOP Publishing, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad25a0.
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Buri, Pascal, Simone Fatichi, Thomas Shaw, Catriona Louise Fyffe, Evan S. Miles, Michael McCarthy, Marin Kneib, et al. “Land Surface Modeling Informed by Earth Observation Data: Toward Understanding Blue–Green–White Water Fluxes in High Mountain Asia.” Geo-Spatial Information Science. Taylor & Francis, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1080/10095020.2024.2330546.
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2023
Buri, Pascal, Simone Fatichi, Thomas Shaw, Evan S. Miles, Michael McCarthy, Catriona Louise Fyffe, Stefan Fugger, et al. “Land Surface Modeling in the Himalayas: On the Importance of Evaporative Fluxes for the Water Balance of a High-Elevation Catchment.” Water Resources Research. Wiley, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR033841.
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Buri, Pascal, Simone Fatichi, Thomas Shaw, Evan Miles, Michael McCarthy, Catriona Louise Fyffe, Stefan Fugger, et al. “Model Output Data to ‘Land Surface Modeling in the Himalayas: On the Importance of Evaporative Fluxes for the Water Balance of a High Elevation Catchment.’” Zenodo, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.8402426.
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Salerno, Franco, Nicolas Guyennon, Kun Yang, Thomas Shaw, Changgui Lin, Nicola Colombo, Emanuele Romano, et al. “Local Cooling and Drying Induced by Himalayan Glaciers under Global Warming.” Nature Geoscience. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01331-y.
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Shaw, Thomas E., Pascal Buri, Michael McCarthy, Evan S. Miles, Álvaro Ayala, and Francesca Pellicciotti. “The Decaying Near‐surface Boundary Layer of a Retreating Alpine Glacier.” Geophysical Research Letters. American Geophysical Union, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023gl103043.
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Shaw, Thomas, Pascal Buri, Michael McCarthy, Evan Miles, and Francesca Pellicciotti. “Air Temperature and Near-Surface Meteorology Datasets on Three Swiss Glaciers – Extreme 2022 Summer.” Zenodo, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.8277285.
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2022
McCarthy, Michael, Evan Miles, Marin Kneib, Pascal Buri, Stefan Fugger, and Francesca Pellicciotti. “Supraglacial Debris Thickness and Supply Rate in High-Mountain Asia.” Communications Earth & Environment. Springer Nature, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00588-2.
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Kneib, Marin, Evan S. Miles, Pascal Buri, Stefan Fugger, Michael McCarthy, Thomas E. Shaw, Zhao Chuanxi, et al. “Sub-Seasonal Variability of Supraglacial Ice Cliff Melt Rates and Associated Processes from Time-Lapse Photogrammetry.” The Cryosphere. Copernicus Publications, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-4701-2022.
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McCarthy, Michael, Fabienne Meier, Simone Fatichi, Benjamin D. Stocker, Thomas E. Shaw, Evan Miles, Inés Dussaillant, and Francesca Pellicciotti. “Glacier Contributions to River Discharge during the Current Chilean Megadrought.” Earth’s Future. American Geophysical Union, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022ef002852.
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Shaw, T E, E S Miles, D Chen, A Jouberton, M Kneib, S Fugger, T Ou, et al. “Multi-Decadal Monsoon Characteristics and Glacier Response in High Mountain Asia.” Environmental Research Letters. IOP Publishing, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac9008.
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Jouberton, Achille, Thomas E. Shaw, Evan Miles, Michael McCarthy, Stefan Fugger, Shaoting Ren, Amaury Dehecq, Wei Yang, and Francesca Pellicciotti. “Warming-Induced Monsoon Precipitation Phase Change Intensifies Glacier Mass Loss in the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau.” PNAS. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2109796119.
Compagno, Loris, Matthias Huss, Evan Stewart Miles, Michael James McCarthy, Harry Zekollari, Amaury Dehecq, Francesca Pellicciotti, and Daniel Farinotti. “Modelling Supraglacial Debris-Cover Evolution from the Single-Glacier to the Regional Scale: An Application to High Mountain Asia.” The Cryosphere. Copernicus Publications, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-1697-2022.
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Fugger, Stefan, Catriona L. Fyffe, Simone Fatichi, Evan Miles, Michael McCarthy, Thomas E. Shaw, Baohong Ding, et al. “Understanding Monsoon Controls on the Energy and Mass Balance of Glaciers in the Central and Eastern Himalaya.” The Cryosphere. Copernicus Publications, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-1631-2022.
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Orr A, Ahmad B, Alam U, Appadurai A, Bharucha ZP, Biemans H, Bolch T, Chaulagain NP, Dhaubanjar S, Dimri AP, Dixon H, Fowler HJ, Gioli G, Halvorson SJ, Hussain A, Jeelani G, Kamal S, Khalid IS, Liu S, Lutz A, Mehra MK, Miles E, Momblanch A, Muccione V, Mukherji A, Mustafa D, Najmuddin O, Nasimi MN, Nüsser M, Pandey VP, Parveen S, Pellicciotti F, Pollino C, Potter E, Qazizada MR, Ray S, Romshoo S, Sarkar SK, Sawas A, Sen S, Shah A, Shah MAA, Shea JM, Sheikh AT, Shrestha AB, Tayal S, Tigala S, Virk ZT, Wester P, Wescoat JL. 2022. Knowledge priorities on climate change and water in the Upper Indus Basin: A horizon scanning exercise to identify the Top 100 research questions in social and natural sciences. Earth’s Future. 10(4), e2021EF002619.
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Zhong, Yan, Qiao Liu, Matthew Westoby, Yong Nie, Francesca Pellicciotti, Bo Zhang, Jialun Cai, Guoxiang Liu, Haijun Liao, and Xuyang Lu. “Intensified Paraglacial Slope Failures Due to Accelerating Downwasting of a Temperate Glacier in Mt. Gongga, Southeastern Tibetan Plateau.” Earth Surface Dynamics. Copernicus Publications, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-10-23-2022.
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Miles, E S, J F Steiner, P Buri, W W Immerzeel, and Francesca Pellicciotti. “Controls on the Relative Melt Rates of Debris-Covered Glacier Surfaces.” Environmental Research Letters. IOP Publishing, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac6966.
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2021
Fyffe, Catriona L., Emily Potter, Stefan Fugger, Andrew Orr, Simone Fatichi, Edwin Loarte, Katy Medina, et al. “The Energy and Mass Balance of Peruvian Glaciers.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. American Geophysical Union, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021jd034911.
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Menenti M, Li X, Jia L, Yang K, Pellicciotti F, Mancini M, Shi J, Escorihuela MJ, Zheng C, Chen Q, Lu J, Zhou J, Hu G, Ren S, Zhang J, Liu Q, Qiu Y, Huang C, Zhou J, Han X, Pan X, Li H, Wu Y, Ding B, Yang W, Buri P, McCarthy MJ, Miles ES, Shaw TE, Ma C, Zhou Y, Corbari C, Li R, Zhao T, Stefan V, Gao Q, Zhang J, Xie Q, Wang N, Sun Y, Mo X, Jia J, Jouberton AP, Kneib M, Fugger S, Paciolla N, Paolini G. 2021. Multi-source hydrological data products to monitor High Asian river basins and regional water security. Remote Sensing. 13(24), 5122.
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Miles, Evan, Michael McCarthy, Amaury Dehecq, Marin Kneib, Stefan Fugger, and Francesca Pellicciotti. “Health and Sustainability of Glaciers in High Mountain Asia.” Nature Communications. Springer Nature, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23073-4.
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Kneib, M., E. S. Miles, P. Buri, P. Molnar, M. McCarthy, S. Fugger, and Francesca Pellicciotti. “Interannual Dynamics of Ice Cliff Populations on Debris‐covered Glaciers from Remote Sensing Observations and Stochastic Modeling.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. American Geophysical Union, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021jf006179.
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Stewart, Rebecca L., Matthew Westoby, Francesca Pellicciotti, Ann Rowan, Darrel Swift, Benjamin Brock, and John Woodward. “Using Climate Reanalysis Data in Conjunction with Multi-Temporal Satellite Thermal Imagery to Derive Supraglacial Debris Thickness Changes from Energy-Balance Modelling.” Journal of Glaciology. Cambridge University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2020.111.
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Buri, Pascal, Evan S. Miles, Jakob F. Steiner, Silvan Ragettli, and Francesca Pellicciotti. “Supraglacial Ice Cliffs Can Substantially Increase the Mass Loss of Debris‐covered Glaciers.” Geophysical Research Letters. American Geophysical Union, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020gl092150.
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Shaw, Thomas E., Wei Yang, Álvaro Ayala, Claudio Bravo, Chuanxi Zhao, and Francesca Pellicciotti. “Distributed Summer Air Temperatures across Mountain Glaciers in the South-East Tibetan Plateau: Temperature Sensitivity and Comparison with Existing Glacier Datasets.” The Cryosphere. Copernicus Publications, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-595-2021.
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Kneib, M., E.S. Miles, S. Jola, P. Buri, S. Herreid, A. Bhattacharya, C.S. Watson, T. Bolch, D. Quincey, and Francesca Pellicciotti. “Mapping Ice Cliffs on Debris-Covered Glaciers Using Multispectral Satellite Images.” Remote Sensing of Environment. Elsevier, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112201.
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Ren, Shaoting, Evan S. Miles, Li Jia, Massimo Menenti, Marin Kneib, Pascal Buri, Michael J. McCarthy, Thomas E. Shaw, Wei Yang, and Francesca Pellicciotti. “Anisotropy Parameterization Development and Evaluation for Glacier Surface Albedo Retrieval from Satellite Observations.” Remote Sensing. MDPI, 2021. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13091714.
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2020
Herreid, Sam, and Francesca Pellicciotti. “The State of Rock Debris Covering Earth’s Glaciers.” Nature Geoscience. Springer Nature, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0615-0.
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Shaw, Thomas E., Alexis Caro, Pablo Mendoza, Álvaro Ayala, Francesca Pellicciotti, Simon Gascoin, and James McPhee. “The Utility of Optical Satellite Winter Snow Depths for Initializing a Glacio‐hydrological Model of a High‐Elevation, Andean Catchment.” Water Resources Research. American Geophysical Union, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020wr027188.
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Yang, Wei, Chuanxi Zhao, Matthew Westoby, Tandong Yao, Yongjie Wang, Francesca Pellicciotti, Jianmin Zhou, Zhen He, and Evan Miles. “Seasonal Dynamics of a Temperate Tibetan Glacier Revealed by High-Resolution UAV Photogrammetry and in Situ Measurements.” Remote Sensing. MDPI, 2020. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12152389.
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Ayala, Álvaro, David Farías-Barahona, Matthias Huss, Francesca Pellicciotti, James McPhee, and Daniel Farinotti. “Glacier Runoff Variations since 1955 in the Maipo River Basin, in the Semiarid Andes of Central Chile.” The Cryosphere. Copernicus Publications, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2005-2020.
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Troxler, Patrick, Álvaro Ayala, Thomas E. Shaw, Matt Nolan, Ben W. Brock, and Francesca Pellicciotti. “Modelling Spatial Patterns of Near-Surface Air Temperature over a Decade of Melt Seasons on McCall Glacier, Alaska.” Journal of Glaciology. Cambridge University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2020.12.
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Shaw, Thomas E., Simon Gascoin, Pablo A. Mendoza, Francesca Pellicciotti, and James McPhee. “Snow Depth Patterns in a High Mountain Andean Catchment from Satellite Optical Tristereoscopic Remote Sensing.” Water Resources Research. American Geophysical Union, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019wr024880.
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Immerzeel WW, Lutz AF, Andrade M, Bahl A, Biemans H, Bolch T, Hyde S, Brumby S, Davies BJ, Elmore AC, Emmer A, Feng M, Fernández A, Haritashya U, Kargel JS, Koppes M, Kraaijenbrink PDA, Kulkarni AV, Mayewski PA, Nepal S, Pacheco P, Painter TH, Pellicciotti F, Rajaram H, Rupper S, Sinisalo A, Shrestha AB, Viviroli D, Wada Y, Xiao C, Yao T, Baillie JEM. 2020. Importance and vulnerability of the world’s water towers. Nature. 577(7790), 364–369.