Articles | Volume 14, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-1119-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-1119-2018
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09 Aug 2018
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Testing the consistency between changes in simulated climate and Alpine glacier length over the past millennium

Hugues Goosse, Pierre-Yves Barriat, Quentin Dalaiden, François Klein, Ben Marzeion, Fabien Maussion, Paolo Pelucchi, and Anouk Vlug

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Glaciers provide iconic illustrations of past climate change, but records of glacier length fluctuations have not been used systematically to test the ability of models to reproduce past changes. One reason is that glacier length depends on several complex factors and so cannot be simply linked to the climate simulated by models. This is done here, and it is shown that the observed glacier length fluctuations are generally well within the range of the simulations.