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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-1157-2021
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© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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The case of a southern European glacier which survived Roman and medieval warm periods but is disappearing under recent warming
Departamento de Procesos Geoambientales y Cambio Global, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología – CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain
Miguel Bartolomé
Departamento de Geología, Museo de Ciencias Naturales – CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Juan Ignacio López-Moreno
Departamento de Procesos Geoambientales y Cambio Global, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología – CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain
Jorge Pey
Departamento de Procesos Geoambientales y Cambio Global, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología – CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain
Fundación Agencia Aragonesa para la Investigación y el Desarrollo, ARAID, Zaragoza, Spain
Juan Pablo Corella
CIEMAT – Environmental Department (DMA), Avenida Complutense 40, Madrid, Spain
Jordi García-Orellana
Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Departament de Física, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,
Barcelona, Spain
Carlos Sancho
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
deceased
María Leunda
Institute of Plant Sciences & Oeschger Centre for Climate Change
Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Graciela Gil-Romera
Ecology Research Group, Department of Biology, Philipps University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
Departamento de Procesos Geoambientales y Cambio Global, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología – CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain
Penélope González-Sampériz
Departamento de Procesos Geoambientales y Cambio Global, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología – CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain
Carlos Pérez-Mejías
Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
Francisco Navarro
Departamento de Matemática Aplicada a las TIC, ETSI de
Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Jaime Otero-García
Departamento de Matemática Aplicada a las TIC, ETSI de
Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Javier Lapazaran
Departamento de Matemática Aplicada a las TIC, ETSI de
Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Esteban Alonso-González
Departamento de Procesos Geoambientales y Cambio Global, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología – CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain
Cristina Cid
Departamento de Evolución Molecular, Centro de Astrobiología – CSIC-INTA, Madrid, Spain
Jerónimo López-Martínez
Departamento de Geología y Geoquímica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Belén Oliva-Urcia
Departamento de Geología y Geoquímica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Sérgio Henrique Faria
Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Leioa, Spain
Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain
María José Sierra
CIEMAT – Environmental Department (DMA), Avenida Complutense 40, Madrid, Spain
Rocío Millán
CIEMAT – Environmental Department (DMA), Avenida Complutense 40, Madrid, Spain
Xavier Querol
Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research – CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
Andrés Alastuey
Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research – CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
José M. García-Ruíz
Departamento de Procesos Geoambientales y Cambio Global, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología – CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain
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Short summary
Our study of the chronological sequence of Monte Perdido Glacier in the Central Pyrenees (Spain) reveals that, although the intense warming associated with the Roman period or Medieval Climate Anomaly produced important ice mass losses, it was insufficient to make this glacier disappear. By contrast, recent global warming has melted away almost 600 years of ice accumulated since the Little Ice Age, jeopardising the survival of this and other southern European glaciers over the next few decades.
Our study of the chronological sequence of Monte Perdido Glacier in the Central Pyrenees (Spain)...
