Abrupt warming and alpine glacial retreat through the last deglaciation in Alaska interrupted by modest Northern Hemisphere cooling

JP Tulenko, JP Briner, NE Young… - Climate of the Past …, 2023 - cp.copernicus.org
Alpine glacier-based temperature reconstructions spanning the last deglaciation provide
critical constraints on local-to-regional climate change and have been reported from several …

[HTML][HTML] Equilibrium line altitudes of alpine glaciers in Alaska suggest Last Glacial Maximum summer temperature was 2–5 C lower than during the pre-industrial

CK Walcott, JP Briner, JP Tulenko… - Climate of the Past, 2024 - cp.copernicus.org
The lack of continental ice sheets in Alaska during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; 26–19
ka) has long been attributed to extensive aridity in the western Arctic. More recently, climate …

Equilibrium line altitudes of alpine glaciers suggest summers in Alaska were not more than− 2–− 5° C colder than the pre-Industrial during the Last Glacial Maximum

CK Walcott, JP Briner, JP Tulenko… - Climate of the Past …, 2023 - cp.copernicus.org
The lack of continental ice sheets in Alaska during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; 26–19
ka) has long been attributed to arid and relatively warm summer conditions. Records of this …

Little Ice Age glaciation in Alaska: A record of recent global climatic change

PE Calkin, GC Wiles - 1992 - osti.gov
General global cooling and temperature fluctuation accompanied by expansion of mountain
glaciers characterized the Little Ice Age of about AD 1200 through AD 1900. The effects of …

Early Younger Dryas glacier culmination in southern Alaska: Implications for North Atlantic climate change during the last deglaciation

NE Young, JP Briner, J Schaefer… - …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The transition from the glacial period to the Holocene was characterized by a dramatic
reorganization of Earth's climate system linked to abrupt changes in atmospheric and …

Century to millennial-scale temperature variations for the last two thousand years indicated from glacial geologic records of Southern Alaska

GC Wiles, DJ Barclay, PE Calkin, TV Lowell - Global and Planetary Change, 2008 - Elsevier
Comparisons of temperature sensitive climate proxy records with tree-ring, lichen and
radiocarbon dated histories from land-terminating, non-surging glaciers for the last two …

Late Pleistocene mountain glaciation in Alaska: key chronologies

JP Briner, DS Kaufman - Journal of Quaternary Science …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Moraine sequences of mountain glaciers can be used to infer spatial and temporal patterns
of climate change across the globe. Alaska is an accessible high‐latitude location in the …

Rapid and early deglaciation in the central Brooks Range, Arctic Alaska

SL Pendleton, EG Ceperley, JP Briner… - …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Alpine-style glaciation was rare in the Arctic during the last glaciation because ice sheets
occupied most of the glaciated high latitudes. Due to the tight coupling of alpine-glacier …

[PDF][PDF] Paleoclimate of the last 10,000 years, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve: Progress understanding climate change in Southeast Alaska

D Lawson, G Wiles, N Wiesenberg - Annual Report, 2010 - Citeseer
Our investigations in 2008 focused on continuing collection and analyses of tree rings from
living trees and building a long ring-width series from interstadial wood. These interstadial …

A 400‐year ice core melt layer record of summertime warming in the Alaska Range

D Winski, E Osterberg, K Kreutz, C Wake… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Warming in high‐elevation regions has societally important impacts on glacier mass
balance, water resources, and sensitive alpine ecosystems, yet very few high‐elevation …