| DOI: | 10.5194/tc-8-639-2014
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| Scopus记录号: | 2-s2.0-84911928942
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| 论文题名: | Little Ice Age climate reconstruction from ensemble reanalysis of Alpine glacier fluctuations |
| 作者: | Lüthi M; P
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| 刊名: | Cryosphere
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| ISSN: | 19940416
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| 出版年: | 2014
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| 卷: | 8, 期:2 | | 起始页码: | 639
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| 结束页码: | 650
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 英文关键词: | alpine environment
; Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation
; cooling
; glacier advance
; glacier dynamics
; glacier mass balance
; glacier retreat
; Little Ice Age
; mountain environment
; paleoclimate
; reconstruction
; Alps
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| 英文摘要: | Mountain glaciers sample a combination of climate fields - temperature, precipitation and radiation - by accumulation and melting of ice. Flow dynamics acts as a transfer function that maps volume changes to a length response of the glacier terminus. Long histories of terminus positions have been assembled for several glaciers in the Alps. Here I analyze terminus position histories from an ensemble of seven glaciers in the Alps with a macroscopic model of glacier dynamics to derive a history of glacier equilibrium line altitude (ELA) for the time span 400-2010 C.E. The resulting climatic reconstruction depends only on records of glacier variations. The reconstructed ELA history is similar to recent reconstructions of Alpine summer temperature and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) index, but bears little resemblance to reconstructed precipitation variations. Most reconstructed low-ELA periods coincide with large explosive volcano eruptions, hinting at a direct effect of volcanic radiative cooling on mass balance. The glacier advances during the LIA, and the retreat after 1860, can thus be mainly attributed to temperature and volcanic radiative cooling. © Author(s) 2014. |
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| 资源类型: | 期刊论文
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/74864
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| Appears in Collections: | 影响、适应和脆弱性
气候变化与战略
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作者单位: | VAW Glaciology, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland; University of Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Lüthi M,P. Little Ice Age climate reconstruction from ensemble reanalysis of Alpine glacier fluctuations[J]. Cryosphere,2014-01-01,8(2)
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