Three decades of meteorological observations show that Himalayan glaciers have been cooling because of intensified downslope winds, in contrast to the warming observed elsewhere in the region.
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Norris, J. Cooling Himalayan glaciers. Nat. Geosci. 16, 1076–1077 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01344-7
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