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Articles | Volume 14, issue 8
Articles | Volume 14, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-1119-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-1119-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 14, issue 8
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09 Aug 2018
Research article | Highlight paper |  | 09 Aug 2018

Testing the consistency between changes in simulated climate and Alpine glacier length over the past millennium

Hugues Goosse, Pierre-Yves Barriat, Quentin Dalaiden, François Klein, Ben Marzeion, Fabien Maussion, Paolo Pelucchi, and Anouk Vlug

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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-1119-2018-supplement

Data sets

Simulated length of 71 Alpine glaciers over the last millennium using OGGM H. Goosse, P.-Y. Barriat, Q. Dalaiden, F. Klein, B. Marzeion, F. Maussion, P. Pelucchi, and A. Vlug https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1319334

Model code and software

Fabien Maussion, Timo Roth, Beatriz Recinos, Anouk Vlug, Ben Marzeion, Felix Oesterle, ... Schmitty Smith OGGM/oggm: v1.0.0 (Version v1.0.0) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1149701

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Short summary
Glaciers provide iconic illustrations of past climate change, but records of glacier length fluctuations have not been used systematically to test the ability of models to reproduce past changes. One reason is that glacier length depends on several complex factors and so cannot be simply linked to the climate simulated by models. This is done here, and it is shown that the observed glacier length fluctuations are generally well within the range of the simulations.
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