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Research article
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23 Apr 2020
Research article |  | 23 Apr 2020

Revisiting extreme precipitation amounts over southern South America and implications for the Patagonian Icefields

Tobias Sauter

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Patagonia is thought to be one of the wettest – if not the wettest – places on Earth. The plausibility of these numbers has never been carefully scrutinized, despite the significance of this topic to our understanding of observed environmental changes, such as glacier recession. The revised precipitation values are significantly smaller than the previously reported values, thus opening up a new perspective on the Patagonian glaciers' response to climate change.
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