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Articles | Volume 19, issue 9
Articles | Volume 19, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-3599-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-3599-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 19, issue 9
Research article
 | 
10 Sep 2025
Research article |  | 10 Sep 2025

Modeled Greenland Ice Sheet evolution constrained by ice-core-derived Holocene elevation histories

Mikkel Langgaard Lauritzen, Anne Solgaard, Nicholas Mossor Rathmann, Bo Møllesøe Vinther, Aslak Grindsted, Brice Noël, Guðfinna Aðalgeirsdóttir, and Christine Schøtt Hvidberg

Data sets

Dataset belonging to the article; Modeled Greenland Ice Sheet evolution constrained by ice-core-derived Holocene elevation histories Mikkel Lauritzen https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15681862

GRIP Oxygen Isotopes S. J. Johnsen https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.55091

50 year means of oxygen isotope data from ice core NGRIP North Greenland Ice Core Project Members https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.586886

Model code and software

Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM) C. Khrulev et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10202029

Video supplement

Modeled Greenland Ice Sheet evolution constrained by ice-core-derived Holocene elevation histories M. L. Lauritzen et al. https://doi.org/10.5446/68337

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Short summary

We studied the Holocene (past 11 700 years) to understand how the Greenland Ice Sheet has changed. Using 841 computer simulations, we tested different scenarios and matched them to historical ice elevation data, confirming our model's accuracy. Results show that Greenland's melting has raised sea levels by about 5.3 m since the Holocene began and by around 12 mm in just the past 500 years.

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