Ilja H.J. van Meerveld¹, Manfred Stähli², Jana von Freyberg^3,4, Julia LA Knapp³, Andrea Rucker^2,3, Leonie Kiewiet¹, Rick S Assendelft¹, Jan Seibert^1,5 and James W Kirchner^2,3, (1)University of Zurich, Department of Geography, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, (3)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Zurich, Switzerland, (4)WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Research Unit Mountain Hydrology and Mass Movements, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, (5)Uppsala University, Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Uppsala, Sweden