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Articles | Volume 12, issue 10
Articles | Volume 12, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-3265-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-3265-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 12, issue 10
Research article
 | 
10 Oct 2018
Research article |  | 10 Oct 2018

Modelling last glacial cycle ice dynamics in the Alps

Julien Seguinot, Susan Ivy-Ochs, Guillaume Jouvet, Matthias Huss, Martin Funk, and Frank Preusser

Data sets

Alpine ice sheet glacial cycle simulations aggregated variables J. Seguinot https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1423160

Alpine ice sheet glacial cycle simulations continuous variables J. Seguinot https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1423176

Modelling last glacial cycle ice dynamics in the Alps J. Seguinot https://doi.org/10.5446/35164

Video supplement

Modelling last glacial cycle ice dynamics in the Alps Julien Seguinot https://doi.org/10.5446/35164

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Short summary
About 25 000 years ago, Alpine glaciers filled most of the valleys and even extended onto the plains. In this study, with help from traces left by glaciers on the landscape, we use a computer model that contains knowledge of glacier physics based on modern observations of Greenland and Antarctica and laboratory experiments on ice, and one of the fastest computers in the world, to attempt a reconstruction of the evolution of Alpine glaciers through time from 120 000 years ago to today.
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