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

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

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

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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RC1: 'Good', Anonymous Referee #1, 09 May 2018
- AC1: 'Answer of the authors', Hugues Goosse, 29 May 2018
RC2: 'Review of CP-2018-48 by Goosse et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 13 May 2018
- AC3: 'Authors' response', Hugues Goosse, 05 Jul 2018
RC3: 'Review: Goose et al.', Anonymous Referee #3, 01 Jun 2018
- AC2: 'Answer of the authors', Hugues Goosse, 25 Jun 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (10 Jul 2018) by Ed Brook

AR by Hugues Goosse on behalf of the Authors (17 Jul 2018) Author's response Manuscript

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.