Correction to: Nature Reviews Earth & Environment https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-024-00638-7, published online 11 February 2025.

In the version of the article initially published, the colour bar in Fig. 3 was labelled “Annual accumulated snowfall (kg m2)” and has now been amended to “Annual accumulated snowmelt (kg m2)” in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.