Western Greenland ice sheet retreat history reveals elevated precipitation during the Holocene thermal maximum

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Downs, Jacob, Johnson, Jesse, Briner, Jason, Young, Nicolás, Lesnek, Alia, Cuzzone, Josh
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Greenland; Kangerlussuaq; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1121-2020; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/14/1121/2020/

We investigate changing precipitation patterns in the Kangerlussuaq region of western central Greenland during the Holocene thermal maximum (HTM), using a new chronology of ice sheet terminus position through the Holocene and a novel inverse modeling approach based on the unscented transform (UT). T...