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==== 12.4.1.4 Snow and Ice ====

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'''Snow and glacier:''' African glaciers are located in East Africa and more specifically on Mount Kenya, the Rwenzori Mountains and Mount Kilimanjaro, with glaciers reducing substantially in each region ( ''high confidence'' ) ( [[#Taylor--2006|Taylor et al., 2006]] ; [[#Cullen--2013|Cullen et al., 2013]] ; [[#Chen--2018|Chen et al., 2018]] ; [[#Prinz--2018|Prinz et al., 2018]] ; [[#Wang--2019|Wang and Zhou, 2019]] ). Observation and future projection of African glacier mass changes are assessed in [[IPCC:Wg1:Chapter:Chapter-9#9.5.1%20|Section 9.5.1]] within the low-latitude glacier region, which is one of the regions with the largest mass loss even under low-emissions scenarios (assessment of this region is dominated by glaciers in the South American Andes, however) ( ''high confidence'' ). Glaciers in the low-latitude region will lose 67 ± 42%, 86 ± 24% and 94 ± 13% of their mass by the end of the century for RCP2.6, RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 scenarios respectively ( [[#Marzeion--2020|Marzeion et al., 2020]] ). [[#Cullen--2013|Cullen et al. (2013)]] calculated that even imbalances between the Mount Kilimanjaro glaciers and present-day climate would be enough to eliminate the mountain’s glaciers by 2060. Snow water equivalent and snow cover season duration also decline in the East African mountains, Ethiopian Highlands and [[IPCC:Wg1:Chapter:Atlas|Atlas]] Mountains with climate change ( ''high confidence'' ) ( [[#López-Moreno--2017|López-Moreno et al., 2017]] ).

'''In conclusion, there is''' high confidence '''that African snow and glaciers have very significantly decreased in the last decades and that this trend will continue over the 21st century.'''

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