Line Plot from Scientific Research

Glacier mass relative to the initial state for a typical fast-responding glacier in the mid-latitudes (Aletsch Glacier). The overshoot phase refers to when the temperature exceeds the stabilization temperature, and the legacy phase refers to the period of time after the temperature stabilizes until the glacier reaches its new steady state. Precipitation is kept constant. Idealized changes for the largest glaciers in five other regions are shown in Extended Data Fig. 1 . See Methods for additional detail on the idealized experiments.

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