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<jats:p>Abstract. Comprehensive assessments of global glacier mass changes based on a variety
of observations and prevailing methodologies have been published at
multi-annual intervals. For the years in between, the glaciological method
provides annual observations of specific mass changes but is suspected to
not be representative at the regional to global scales due to uneven glacier
distribution with respect to the full sample. Here, we present a simple
approach to estimate and correct for this bias in the glaciological sample
and, hence, to provide an ad hoc estimate of global glacier mass changes and
corresponding sea-level equivalents for the latest years, i.e. about -300±250 Gt in 2016/17 and -500±200 Gt in 2017/18.
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