Nature Clim. Change 3, 875–883 (2013); published online 15 September 2013; corrected after print 27 September 2013.

In the version of this Review Article originally published, on page 877, the mass balance of glaciers in the Karakarom region should have been 0.11±0.2 m yr−1. On page 879, in the second paragraph of the 'Aerosols' section, the estimated value for the direct radiative forcing should have been −1.0±0.34 W m−2. These errors have now been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the Review Article.