Can shrubs help to reconstruct historical glacier retreats?
Abstract In the 21st century, most of the world’s glaciers are expected to retreat due to further global warming. The range of this predicted retreat varies widely as a result of uncertainties in climate and glacier models. To calibrate and validate glacier models, past records of glacier mass balan...
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ftungreifswaldir:oai:epub.ub.uni-greifswald.de:5891 2024-05-19T07:40:46+00:00 Can shrubs help to reconstruct historical glacier retreats? Buras, Allan Hallinger, Martin Wilmking, Martin 2012-11-26 application/pdf https://epub.ub.uni-greifswald.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/5891 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:9-opus-58910 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/044031 https://epub.ub.uni-greifswald.de/files/5891/erl12_4_044031.pdf eng eng IOP Publishing https://epub.ub.uni-greifswald.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/5891 urn:nbn:de:gbv:9-opus-58910 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:9-opus-58910 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/044031 https://epub.ub.uni-greifswald.de/files/5891/erl12_4_044031.pdf https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/de info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess - article doc-type:article 2012 ftungreifswaldir https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/044031 2024-05-01T00:22:30Z Abstract In the 21st century, most of the world’s glaciers are expected to retreat due to further global warming. The range of this predicted retreat varies widely as a result of uncertainties in climate and glacier models. To calibrate and validate glacier models, past records of glacier mass balance are necessary, which often only span several decades. Long-term reconstructions of glacier mass balance could increase the precision of glacier models by providing the required calibration data. Here we show the possibility of applying shrub growth increments as an on-site proxy for glacier summer mass balance, exemplified by Salix shrubs in Finse, Norway. We further discuss the challenges which this method needs to meet and address the high potential of shrub growth increments for reconstructing glacier summer mass balance in remote areas. Article in Journal/Newspaper glacier Publication Server of Greifswald University Environmental Research Letters 7 4 044031 |
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Abstract In the 21st century, most of the world’s glaciers are expected to retreat due to further global warming. The range of this predicted retreat varies widely as a result of uncertainties in climate and glacier models. To calibrate and validate glacier models, past records of glacier mass balance are necessary, which often only span several decades. Long-term reconstructions of glacier mass balance could increase the precision of glacier models by providing the required calibration data. Here we show the possibility of applying shrub growth increments as an on-site proxy for glacier summer mass balance, exemplified by Salix shrubs in Finse, Norway. We further discuss the challenges which this method needs to meet and address the high potential of shrub growth increments for reconstructing glacier summer mass balance in remote areas. |
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Can shrubs help to reconstruct historical glacier retreats? |
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