Recent evolution and associated hydrological dynamics of a vanishing tropical Andean glacier: Glaciar de Conejeras, Colombia

Morán-Tejeda, Enrique; Ceballos, Jorge Luis; Peña, Katherine; Lorenzo-Lacruz, Jorge; López-Moreno, Juan Ignacio

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-5445-2018

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23 Oct 2018

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| 23 Oct 2018

Recent evolution and associated hydrological dynamics of a vanishing tropical Andean glacier: Glaciar de Conejeras, Colombia

Enrique Morán-Tejeda, Jorge Luis Ceballos, Katherine Peña, Jorge Lorenzo-Lacruz, and Juan Ignacio López-Moreno

Data sets

Multivariate ENSO Index webpage K. Wolter https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/enso/mei/

Short summary

We studied the recent evolution of a small glacier in the Colombian Andes that is close to extinction, focusing on the water release from the glacier. For this we used hydro-climatological data collected at the the glacier surroundings at an hourly resolution. Our results indicate that water from glacier melt increased as a consequence of accelerated glacier retreat, but up to a certain point (mid-2016) it started to decrease, with glacier melt becoming decreasingly important.