Articles | Volume 13, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-3317-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-3317-2019
Research article
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11 Dec 2019
Research article |  | 11 Dec 2019

Initialization of a global glacier model based on present-day glacier geometry and past climate information: an ensemble approach

Julia Eis, Fabien Maussion, and Ben Marzeion

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To provide estimates of past glacier mass changes, an adequate initial state is required. However, information about past glacier states at regional or global scales is largely incomplete. Our study presents a new way to initialize the Open Global Glacier Model from past climate information and present-day geometries. We show that even with perfectly known but incomplete boundary conditions, the problem of model initialization leads to nonunique solutions, and we propose an ensemble approach.