Coupled climate-glacier modelling of the last glaciation in the Alps
Our limited knowledge of the climate prevailing over Europe during former glaciations is the main obstacle to reconstruct the past evolution of the ice coverage over the Alps by numerical modelling. To address this challenge, we perform a two-step modelling approach: First, a regional climate model...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:012a3edf744c4462aea7bc63582f3b11 2023-11-05T03:42:43+01:00 Coupled climate-glacier modelling of the last glaciation in the Alps Guillaume Jouvet Denis Cohen Emmanuele Russo Jonathan Buzan Christoph C. Raible Wilfried Haeberli Sarah Kamleitner Susan Ivy-Ochs Michael A. Imhof Jens K. Becker Angela Landgraf Urs H. Fischer https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2023.74 https://doaj.org/article/012a3edf744c4462aea7bc63582f3b11 EN eng Cambridge University Press https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0022143023000746/type/journal_article https://doaj.org/toc/0022-1430 https://doaj.org/toc/1727-5652 doi:10.1017/jog.2023.74 0022-1430 1727-5652 https://doaj.org/article/012a3edf744c4462aea7bc63582f3b11 Journal of Glaciology, Pp 1-15 glacier modelling moraine paleoclimate Environmental sciences GE1-350 Meteorology. Climatology QC851-999 article ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2023.74 2023-10-08T00:36:00Z Our limited knowledge of the climate prevailing over Europe during former glaciations is the main obstacle to reconstruct the past evolution of the ice coverage over the Alps by numerical modelling. To address this challenge, we perform a two-step modelling approach: First, a regional climate model is used to downscale the time slice simulations of a global earth system model in high resolution, leading to climate snapshots during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and the Marine Isotope Stage 4 (MIS4). Second, we combine these snapshots and a climate signal proxy to build a transient climate over the last glacial period and force the Parallel Ice Sheet Model to simulate the dynamical evolution of glaciers in the Alps. The results show that the extent of modelled glaciers during the LGM agrees with several independent key geological imprints, including moraine-based maximal reconstructed glacial extents, known ice transfluences and trajectories of erratic boulders of known origin and deposition. Our results highlight the benefit of multiphysical coupled climate and glacier transient modelling over simpler approaches to help reconstruct paleo glacier fluctuations in agreement with traces they have left on the landscape. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ice Sheet Journal of Glaciology Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Journal of Glaciology 1 15 |
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glacier modelling moraine paleoclimate Environmental sciences GE1-350 Meteorology. Climatology QC851-999 Guillaume Jouvet Denis Cohen Emmanuele Russo Jonathan Buzan Christoph C. Raible Wilfried Haeberli Sarah Kamleitner Susan Ivy-Ochs Michael A. Imhof Jens K. Becker Angela Landgraf Urs H. Fischer Coupled climate-glacier modelling of the last glaciation in the Alps |
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Our limited knowledge of the climate prevailing over Europe during former glaciations is the main obstacle to reconstruct the past evolution of the ice coverage over the Alps by numerical modelling. To address this challenge, we perform a two-step modelling approach: First, a regional climate model is used to downscale the time slice simulations of a global earth system model in high resolution, leading to climate snapshots during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and the Marine Isotope Stage 4 (MIS4). Second, we combine these snapshots and a climate signal proxy to build a transient climate over the last glacial period and force the Parallel Ice Sheet Model to simulate the dynamical evolution of glaciers in the Alps. The results show that the extent of modelled glaciers during the LGM agrees with several independent key geological imprints, including moraine-based maximal reconstructed glacial extents, known ice transfluences and trajectories of erratic boulders of known origin and deposition. Our results highlight the benefit of multiphysical coupled climate and glacier transient modelling over simpler approaches to help reconstruct paleo glacier fluctuations in agreement with traces they have left on the landscape. |
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Guillaume Jouvet Denis Cohen Emmanuele Russo Jonathan Buzan Christoph C. Raible Wilfried Haeberli Sarah Kamleitner Susan Ivy-Ochs Michael A. Imhof Jens K. Becker Angela Landgraf Urs H. Fischer |
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Guillaume Jouvet Denis Cohen Emmanuele Russo Jonathan Buzan Christoph C. Raible Wilfried Haeberli Sarah Kamleitner Susan Ivy-Ochs Michael A. Imhof Jens K. Becker Angela Landgraf Urs H. Fischer |
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Coupled climate-glacier modelling of the last glaciation in the Alps |
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Coupled climate-glacier modelling of the last glaciation in the Alps |
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Coupled climate-glacier modelling of the last glaciation in the Alps |
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Coupled climate-glacier modelling of the last glaciation in the Alps |
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Coupled climate-glacier modelling of the last glaciation in the Alps |
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coupled climate-glacier modelling of the last glaciation in the alps |
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