Dataset from: Quantifying the Uncertainty in the Eurasian Ice-Sheet Geometry at the Penultimate Glacial Maximum (Marine Isotope Stage 6) ...

• Main Authors: Pollard, Oliver, Barlow, Natasha, Gregoire, Lauren, Gomez, Natalya, Cartelle, Víctor, Ely, Jeremy, Astfalck, Lachlan
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: University of Leeds 2023
• Subjects: FOS Physical sciences; Geophysics; FOS Earth and related environmental sciences; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5518/1287; https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/1183/

The North Sea Last Interglacial sea level is sensitive to the fingerprint of mass loss from polar ice sheets. However, the signal is complicated by the influence of glacial isostatic adjustment driven by Penultimate Glacial Period ice-sheet changes, and yet these ice-sheet geometries remain significantly uncertain. Here, we produce new reconstructions of the Eurasian ice sheet during the Penultimate Glacial Maximum by employing large ensemble experiments from a simple ice-sheet model that depends solely on basal sheer stress, ice extent, and topography. To explore the range of uncertainty in possible ice geometries, we use a parameterised shear-stress map as input that has been developed to incorporate bedrock characteristics and the influence of ice-sheet basal processes. We perform Bayesian uncertainty quantification, utilising Gaussian Process emulation, to calibrate against global ice-sheet reconstructions of the last deglaciation and rule out combinations of input parameters that produce unrealistic ice ...