The Andean Glacier and Water Atlas

Editors Tina Schoolmeester, GRID-Arendal, Norway Koen Verbist, UNESCO-IHP, France

Published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 7, place de Fontenoy, 75352 Paris 07 SP, France, and GRID-Arendal, P.O. Box 183, N-4802 Arendal, Norway

Authors Kari Synnøve Johansen, GRID-Arendal, Norway Björn Alfthan, GRID-Arendal, Norway Elaine Baker, GRID-Arendal at the University of Sydney, Australia

© UNESCO and GRID-Arendal, 2018 UNESCO ISBN 978-92-3-100286-1 GRID-Arendal ISBN 978-82-7701-177-6

Malena Hesping, GRID-Arendal, Norway Tina Schoolmeester, GRID-Arendal, Norway Koen Verbist, UNESCO-IHP, France

Contributing Authors Wouter Buytaert, Imperial College of London, United Kingdom Gino Casassa, Geoestudios and Universidad de Magallanes, Chile Raquel Guaite Llabata, Peru Rodolfo Iturraspe, Universidad Nacional de Tierra del Fuego, Argentina Anil Mishra, UNESCO-IHP, France Elma Montaña, Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), Uruguay Andres Rivera, Centro de Estudios Científicos, Chile Lucas Ruiz, Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales, Argentina Wilson Suarez Alayza, SENAMHI, Peru Mathias Vuille, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA

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Other contributions Marina Antonova, GRID-Arendal, Norway Barbara Avila, UNESCO-IHP, France Louis Dorémus, GRID-Arendal, Norway Hanna Lønning Gjerdi, GRID-Arendal, Norway Marie-Claire Hugon, UNESCO-IHP, France Laura Puikkonen, GRID-Arendal, Norway Laura Wallace, UNESCO-IHP, France Levi Westerveld, GRID-Arendal, Norway

External Reviewers Mathias Vuille, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA Bolivar Caceres, Instituto Nacional Meteorologia e Hidrología, Ecuador

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

International Hydrological Programme

Layout GRID-Arendal

The Andean Glacier and Water Atlas is developed in the framework of the project “The Impact of Glacier Retreat in the Andes: International Multidsciplinary Network for Adaptation Strategies”, executed by UNESCO's International Hydrological Programme (IHP) and supported by UNESCO/Flanders Fund-in- Trust for the support of UNESCO's activities in the field of Science (FUST). Recommended citation: Schoolmeester, T., Johansen, K.S., Alfthan, B., Baker, E., Hesping, M. and Verbist, K., 2018. The Andean Glacier and Water Atlas – The Impact of Glacier Retreat on Water Resources . UNESCO and GRID-Arendal.

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Cartography Riccardo Pravettoni, GEO-GRAPHICS Front cover photo: iStock/naphtalina Back cover photo: iStock/cta88

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