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Articles | Volume 23, issue 18
Articles | Volume 23, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-10439-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-10439-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 23, issue 18
Research article
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21 Sep 2023
Research article |  | 21 Sep 2023

Air pollution reductions caused by the COVID-19 lockdown open up a way to preserve the Himalayan glaciers

Suvarna Fadnavis, Bernd Heinold, T. P. Sabin, Anne Kubin, Katty Huang, Alexandru Rap, and Rolf Müller

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The influence of the COVID-19 lockdown on the Himalayas caused increases in snow cover and a decrease in runoff, ultimately leading to an enhanced snow water equivalent. Our findings highlight that, out of the two processes causing a retreat of Himalayan glaciers – (1) slow response to global climate change and (2) fast response to local air pollution – a policy action on the latter is more likely to be within the reach of possible policy action to help billions of people in southern Asia.
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