Reconstructing climate from glaciers

AN Mackintosh, BM Anderson… - Annual Review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Glaciers offer the potential to reconstruct past climate over timescales from decades to
millennia. They are found on nearly every continent, and at the Last Glacial Maximum …

[HTML][HTML] Late glacial climate evolution in the Patagonian Andes (44–47° S) from alpine glacier modelling

R Muir, S Eaves, L Vargo, B Anderson… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Numerical glacier models applied to moraine chronologies provide an opportunity to
quantify past climate change. Here we apply a two-dimensional coupled mass balance–ice …

The effects of climatic change and inter-annual variability on glacier retreat from~ 1850s AD moraines in the Kuoqionggangri peak region, southern Tibetan Plateau

X Xu, H Zhang, Y Sun, B Xu, J Li, G Dong, B Pan - Climate Dynamics, 2024 - Springer
Glaciers reflect integrated climate signals from inter-annual to centennial timescales. In
using glacier extent as a climate-change detector, the challenge is to distinguish the roles of …

Can inter-annual climate variability alone explain the glacier retreat since the Little Ice Age in the Hailuogou catchment, southeastern Tibetan Plateau?

Y Sun, X Xu, H Zhang, J Li, B Xu - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Inter-annual climate variability has the potential to induce hundred-to-thousand meters of
glacier length change, comparable to the glacier retreats from their Little Ice Age (LIA) …

A 10Be Moraine Chronology of the Last Glaciation and Termination at 49°N in the Mongolian Altai of Central Asia

PD Strand, AE Putnam, O Sambuu… - Paleoceanography …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Determining what caused the global Last Glaciation and last glacial termination, despite
opposing orbital summer insolation signatures between the polar hemispheres, remains a …

Forward modelling of the completeness and preservation of palaeoclimate signals recorded by ice‐marginal moraines

AV Rowan, DL Egholm, CD Clark - Earth Surface Processes …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Glaciers fluctuate in response to climate change and record these changes by building
sedimentary landforms, including moraines. Therefore, glacial landscapes are a potentially …

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

H Goosse, PY Barriat, Q Dalaiden, F Klein… - Climate of the …, 2018 - cp.copernicus.org
It is standard to compare climate model results covering the past millennium and
reconstructions based on various archives in order to test the ability of models to reproduce …

Last Glacial Maximum reconstructions of Rwenzori Mountain glaciers

AM Doughty, MA Kelly, JM Russell… - Paleoceanography …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The magnitude of tropical cooling during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM;∼ 19–26.5 ka)
remains controversial, with sea‐surface temperatures cooling by several degrees less than …

Late-glacial and Holocene glacier fluctuations in north island, New Zealand

SR Eaves, G Winckler, AN Mackintosh… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Geological records of past glacier extent can yield important constraints on the timing and
magnitude of pre-historic climate change. Here we present a cosmogenic 3 He moraine …

Duelling narratives of chironomids and pollen explain climate enigmas during The Last Glacial-Interglacial transition in North Island New Zealand

ABH Rees, KA Holt, JL Hinojosa, RM Newnham… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition (LGIT) was a dynamic stage of Earth's
history, and the difficulty of reconstructing this complex interval may be compounded by …