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Research article
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28 Mar 2024
Research article |
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| 28 Mar 2024
A Greenland-wide empirical reconstruction of paleo ice sheet retreat informed by ice extent markers: PaleoGrIS version 1.0
Tancrède P. M. Leger
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom
Christopher D. Clark
Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom
Carla Huynh
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Drummond Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9XP, United Kingdom
Sharman Jones
Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DB, United Kingdom
Jeremy C. Ely
Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom
Sarah L. Bradley
Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom
Christiaan Diemont
Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom
Anna L. C. Hughes
Department of Geography, School of Environment, Education and Development, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom
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Short summary
Projecting the future evolution of the Greenland Ice Sheet is key. However, it is still under the influence of past climate changes that occurred over thousands of years. This makes calibrating projection models against current knowledge of its past evolution (not yet achieved) important. To help with this, we produced a new Greenland-wide reconstruction of ice sheet extent by gathering all published studies dating its former retreat and by mapping its past margins at the ice sheet scale.
Projecting the future evolution of the Greenland Ice Sheet is key. However, it is still under...
