Articles | Volume 14, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3135-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3135-2020
Research article
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16 Sep 2020
Research article |  | 16 Sep 2020

Modelling regional glacier length changes over the last millennium using the Open Global Glacier Model

David Parkes and Hugues Goosse

Data sets

OGGM sample data F. Maussion et al. https://github.com/OGGM/oggm-sample-data/tree/master/leclercq

Model code and software

OGGM/oggm: v1.1 F. Maussion et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2580277

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Short summary
Direct records of glacier changes rarely go back more than the last 100 years and are few and far between. We used a sophisticated glacier model to simulate glacier length changes over the last 1000 years for those glaciers that we do have long-term records of, to determine whether the model can run in a stable, realistic way over a long timescale, reproducing recent observed trends. We find that post-industrial changes are larger than other changes in this time period driven by recent warming.