cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this software, please cite it as below."
type: software
authors:
  - family-names: Römer
    given-names: Johann
    affiliation: "MOR Research Collective"
title: "distributed-buffer-resilience-utac"
version: "1.0.1"
date-released: "2026-08-31"
url: "https://github.com/GenesisAeon/distributed-buffer-resilience-utac"
repository-code: "https://github.com/GenesisAeon/distributed-buffer-resilience-utac"
license: MIT
abstract: "Distributed hydrological/ecosystem buffer resilience for deglacierizing catchments: van Tiel et al. 2026's drought-buffer evidence, Farinotti et al. 2016/2019's storage-portfolio figures, Immerzeel/Pritchard water-tower science, Casallas et al. 2025 ecosystem-service trade-offs, plus a clearly-flagged speculative Glacier Buffer Replacement score. Companion to glacier-buffer-utac (P99) and glacier-buffer-replacement-utac (P100). Deliberately no UTAC/CREP/AFET bridge. GenesisAeon P103."
keywords:
  - GenesisAeon
  - P103
  - climate
  - glacier
  - hydrology
  - ecosystem-services
  - water-towers
  - open-science
references:
  - type: article
    title: "Swiss glacier mass loss during the 2022 drought: persistent streamflow contributions amid declining melt water volumes"
    authors:
      - name: "van Tiel, M."
      - name: "Huss, M."
      - name: "Zappa, M."
      - name: "Jonas, T."
      - name: "Farinotti, D."
    year: 2026
    journal: "Hydrology and Earth System Sciences"
    volume: 30
    start: 23
    doi: "10.5194/hess-30-23-2026"
  - type: article
    title: "From dwindling ice to headwater lakes: could dams replace glaciers in the European Alps?"
    authors:
      - name: "Farinotti, D."
      - name: "Pistocchi, A."
      - name: "Huss, M."
    year: 2016
    journal: "Environmental Research Letters"
    volume: 11
    issue: 5
    doi: "10.1088/1748-9326/11/5/054022"
  - type: article
    title: "Large hydropower and water-storage potential in future glacier-free basins"
    authors:
      - name: "Farinotti, D."
      - name: "Round, V."
      - name: "Huss, M."
      - name: "Compagno, L."
      - name: "Zekollari, H."
    year: 2019
    journal: "Nature"
    volume: 575
    start: 341
    doi: "10.1038/s41586-019-1740-z"
  - type: article
    title: "Global-scale hydrological response to future glacier mass loss"
    authors:
      - name: "Huss, M."
      - name: "Hock, R."
    year: 2018
    journal: "Nature Climate Change"
    volume: 8
    start: 135
    doi: "10.1038/s41558-017-0049-x"
  - type: article
    title: "Asia's glaciers are a regionally important buffer against drought"
    authors:
      - name: "Pritchard, H.D."
    year: 2017
    journal: "Nature"
    volume: 545
    start: 169
    doi: "10.1038/nature22062"
  - type: article
    title: "Importance and vulnerability of the world's water towers"
    authors:
      - name: "Immerzeel, W.W."
      - name: "Lutz, A.F."
      - name: "Andrade, M."
    year: 2020
    journal: "Nature"
    volume: 577
    start: 364
    doi: "10.1038/s41586-019-1822-y"
  - type: article
    title: "Global impacts of glacier retreat on ecosystem services provided by soil and vegetation in mountain regions: A literature review"
    authors:
      - name: "Velasquez Casallas, L.M."
      - name: "Khelidj, N."
      - name: "Moran-Ordonez, A."
      - name: "Losapio, G."
    year: 2025
    journal: "Ecosystem Services"
    volume: 73
    doi: "10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101730"