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Accepted manuscript

Towards improved comparability of glacier mass-balance estimates: challenges and recommendations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2026

Regine Hock ,
Matthias Huss ,
Etienne Berthier ,
Matthias H. Braun ,
Alex Gardner ,
Bert Wouters  and
Michael Zemp
Regine Hock*
Affiliation:
Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, USA
Matthias Huss
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW), ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Sion, Switzerland
Etienne Berthier
Affiliation:
LEGOS, Université de Toulouse, CNES, CNRS, IRD, UPS; Toulouse, France
Matthias H. Braun
Affiliation:
Institute of Geography, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Alex Gardner
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Bert Wouters
Affiliation:
Institute for Marine and Atmosphere Research and Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Michael Zemp
Affiliation:
World Glacier Monitoring Service, University of Zurich, Switzerland
*
Corresponding author: Regine Hock, Email: rehock@alaska.edu
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Journal of Glaciology , Accepted manuscript , pp. 1 - 43
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